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.

Attend to these duties, let them absorb you, so that all men may note your progress.

(When a widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn that the first duty of religion is to their own household, and that they should make some return to those who have brought them up. In God's sight this is an acceptable thing.)

So lay down the following rules, to prevent any reproach being incurred.

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

So I prefer young widows to marry again, to bear children, to look after their households, and not to afford our opponents any chance of reviling us.

Some people's sins are notorious and call for judgment, but in some cases sin only comes out afterwards.

And so it is ??provided it goes with a contented spirit;

who alone has immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honour and eternal dominion: Amen.

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;