005:006 but a pleasure-loving widow is dead even while still alive.
005:007 Press these facts upon them, so that they may live lives
free from reproach.
005:008 But if a man makes no provision for those dependent on him,
and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith
and is behaving worse than an unbeliever.
005:009 No widow is to be put on the roll who is under sixty years of age.
005:010 She must have been true to her one husband, and well
reported of for good deeds, as having brought up children,
received strangers hospitably, washed the feet of God's people,
given relief to the distressed, and devoted herself to good
works of every kind.
005:011 But the younger widows you must not enrol; for as soon as they
begin to chafe against the yoke of Christ, they want to marry,
005:012 and they incur disapproval for having broken their original vow.
005:013 And at the same time they also learn to be idle as they go
round from house to house; and they are not only idle,
but are gossips also and busybodies, speaking of things
that ought not to be spoken of.
005:014 I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children,
rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no
excuse for slander.
005:015 For already some of them have gone astray, following Satan.
005:016 If a believing woman has widows dependent on her, she should
relieve their wants, and save the Church from being burdened--
so that the Church may relieve the widows who are really in need.
005:017 Let the Elders who perform their duties wisely and well be
held worthy of double honour, especially those who labour
in preaching and teaching.
005:018 For the Scripture says, "You are not to muzzle the ox while it