2the elder wemen as mothers: the yonger as sisters with all purenes.
3Honor wedowes, which are true wedowes.
4Yf eny wedowe haue children or neves, let them lerne first to rule their awne houses godly, and to recompence their elders. For yt is good & acceptable before God.
5But she that is a right wedowe, & desolate, putteth hir trust in God, & cotynueth in prayer and supplicacion nighte and daye.
6But she that lyueth in pleasures, is deed, euen yet a lyue.
7And these thinges commaunde, that they maye be without blame.
8But yf there be eny man that prouydeth not for his awne, and specially for them of his houssholde, the same hath denyed the faith, and is worse then an infydele.
9Let no wedowe be chosen vnder threscore yeare olde, and soch one as was ye wife of one man,