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

³ Honour widows which are true widows. ⁴ If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God. ⁵ She that is a very widow, and friendless, putteth her trust in God, and continueth in supplication and prayer night and day: ⁶ but she that liveth in pleasure, is dead even yet alive. ⁷ And these things command, that they may be without fault. ⁸ If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

⁹ Let no widow be chosen under sixty years old, and such a one as was the wife of one man, ¹⁰ and well reported of in good works: if she have nourished children, if she have been liberal to strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered unto them which were in adversity, if she were continually given unto all manner good works. ¹¹ The younger widows refuse. For when they have begun to wax wanton, to the dishonour of Christ, then will they marry, ¹² having damnation, because they have broken their first faith. ¹³ And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yea not idle only, but also trifling and busybodies, speaking things which are not comely. ¹⁴ I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil. ¹⁵ For many of them are all ready turned back, and are gone after Satan. ¹⁶ And if any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them minister unto them, and let not the congregation be charged: that it may have sufficient for them that are widows indeed.