I allow no woman to teach or dictate to men, she must keep quiet.

The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications;

whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies.

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

she must have a reputation for good service, as a woman who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved distress, and interested herself in all good works.

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.