1 Timothy 5:5-10 As for the woman who is really widowed and left quite alone, her hopes are fixed on God, and she devotes herself to prayers and supplications night and day.

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ As for the woman who is really widowed and left quite alone, her hopes are fixed on God, and she devotes herself to prayers and supplications night and day. ⁶ But the life of a widow who is devoted to pleasure is a living death. ⁷ Those are the points on which you should dwell, that there may be no call for your censure. ⁸ Any one who fails to provide for his own relations, and especially for those under his own roof, has disowned the Faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. ⁹ A widow, when her name is added to the list, should not be less than sixty years old; she should have been a faithful wife, ¹⁰ and be well spoken of for her kind actions. She should have brought up children, have shown hospitality to strangers, have washed the feet of her fellow Christians, have relieved those who were in distress, and devoted herself to every kind of good action.