for in this way it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in the treatment of their own families, and to pay the debt they owe their parents or grandparents, for this is acceptable to God.

But a woman who is really a widow and lives alone has fixed her hope on God, and night and day devotes herself to prayers and entreaties,

while a widow who gives herself up to luxury is really dead though still alive.

No widow under sixty years of age should be put on this roll. A widow must have had but one husband,