Now I want the men to offer prayer at any meeting of the church; and let the hands they lift to heaven be holy ??they must be free from anger and dissension.

A woman must listen quietly in church and be perfectly submissive;

(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

No one under sixty is to be put on the church's list of widows; and she must have been only once married,

As it is, some widows have already turned after Satan. ??16 Any believer, man or woman, who has widowed relatives, must give them relief; the church is not to be burdened with them; she has to relieve the widows who really need relief.