7These things also command, that they may be without reproach.
8But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
9Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,
10well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints` feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.
11But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
12having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
13And withal they learn also [to be] idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
