4 But if any widow have children or nephews; let her learn first to rule her own house, & to render mutual duty to her parents. For this is acceptable before God.📜💬📚

5 But she that is a widow indeed and desolate, let her hope in God, and continue in obsecrations & prayers night and day.📜💬📚

6 For she that is in deliciousness, living is dead.📜💬📚

7 And this command that they be blameless.📜💬📚

8 But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of his domesticals, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.📜💬📚

9 Let a widow be chosen of no less than three-score years, which hath been the wife of one husband,📜💬📚

10 having testimony in good works, if she have brought up her children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have followed every good work.📜💬📚

11 But the younger widows avoid. For when they shall be wanton in Christ, they will marry:📜💬📚

12 having damnation, because they have made void their first faith.📜💬📚

13 And withal idle also they learn to go about from house to house: not only idle, but also full of words & curious, speaking things which they ought not.📜💬📚

14 I will, therefore the younger to marry, to bring forth children, to be housewives: to give no occasion to the adversary for to speak evil.📜💬📚

15 For now certain are turned back after Satan.📜💬📚

16 If any faithful man have widows, let him minister to them, and let not the Church be burdened: that there may be sufficient for them that are widows indeed.📜💬📚

Douay Rheims Original ↷

1 Timothy 5 📜 📕 ↷

Reproof and Respect

Honoring True Widows

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