1 Timothy 5:3-16 - The Support Of Widows

³ Honour widows, truly widows. ⁴ And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God. ⁵ And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day. ⁶ And she living luxuriously is dead, living. ⁷ And these things proclaim, that they might be irreprehensible. ⁸ And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving.

⁹ Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man, ¹⁰ Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work. ¹¹ And the younger widows reject: for when they conduct themselves arrogantly against Christ, they wish to marry: ¹² Having judgment, for they put away the first faith. ¹³ And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming. ¹⁴ I wish therefore the younger to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to him opposing for reproach. ¹⁵ For already have some turned aside after Satan. ¹⁶ If any man or woman faithful have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be loaded; that it may relieve the truly widows.