1 Timothy 5:3
Verse 3 of 25. The 5th of 6 chapters in 1 Timothy, in The Letters of Paul.
1Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
3Honor widows who are widows indeed.
4But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
5Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
6But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
7Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.