1 A n aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

2 a ged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

3 h onour widows who are really widows;

4 a nd if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

5 A nd she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

6 a nd she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;

7 a nd these things charge, that they may be blameless;

8 a nd if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

9 A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

10 i n good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

11 a nd younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

12 h aving judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

13 a nd at the same time also, they learn idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

14 I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

15 f or already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.

16 I f any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

17 T he well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

18 f or the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy the workman of his reward.'

19 A gainst an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

20 T hose sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

21 I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

22 B e laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

23 n o longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

24 o f certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;

25 i n like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.