older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

Let the elders having ruled well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.

Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the good land, which the Lord your God gives to you.

then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus you have nullified the commandment of God on account of your tradition.

Nor seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, even though we were able to carry weight as apostles of Christ.

Honor all [people]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Husbands, likewise, live together according to knowledge as with a weaker vessel, with the wife, showing her honor as also a fellow heir of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

Let a widow be enrolled having become not less than sixty years, [the] wife of one man,

executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and He loves the stranger, to give him food and clothing.

And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with you, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in your cities, and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works which you shall do.

And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son, and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatsoever place the Lord your God shall choose, that His name should be called there.

And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in your cities.

Cursed is everyone that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

[who is] the Father of the orphans, and Judge of the widows; [such is] God in His holy place.

They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger.

He will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.

for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in Me.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

And when He came near the gate of the city, that behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And many people from the city was with her.

Now in those days, as the disciples were increasing in number, there arose a complaint from the Greek speaking Jews against the Aramaic speaking Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

And arising, Peter went with them. When he arrived, they took him into the upper room, and all the widows stood beside him weeping, showing [him] tunics and cloaks which Dorcas was making, [while] being with them.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and [the] Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

But if a certain widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety to their own household and to make repayment to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Now she who is really a widow and having been left alone, has set her hope on God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

Let a widow be enrolled having become not less than sixty years, [the] wife of one man,

But refuse [to enroll] the younger widows; for whenever they grow lustful against Christ, they desire to marry,

and she [was] a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!"