2The elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, in all chastitie.
3Honour wydowes, whiche are wydowes in deede.
4But yf any wydowe haue chyldren or nephewes, let them learne first to rule their owne houses godly, and to recompence also their elder kynsefolkes: for that is good and acceptable before God.
5And she that is a wydowe in deede, and left alone, hopeth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers nyght and day.
6But she that liueth in pleasure, is dead beyng alyue.
7And these thynges commaunde, that they may be blamelesse.
8But if any prouide not for his owne, and specially for them of his housholde, he hath denyed the fayth, and is worse then an infidell.
9Let not a wydowe be chosen vnder three score yeres olde, hauyng ben the wyfe of one man.