forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

But she being really a widow, and having been left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

But she who lives in self-pleasure has died while living.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

If any believing man or believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be charged, so that it may relieve those who are widows indeed.

who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.