Honor widows who are really widows.

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.

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

Therefore I desire that the younger widows to marry, to bear children, to manage the house, to give no opportunity to the adversary because of reproach.

Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;

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.

It is necessary, therefore, for a bishop to be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful at teaching;

Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children well, and their own houses.

Now to those who have married I command, yet not I, but the Lord: A wife is not to be separated from her husband--

and even if she does separate, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband--and a husband is not to divorce his wife.

A wife has been bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband also dies, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in the Lord.

But she is more blessed if she remains as she is, in my opinion--and I think I also have the Spirit of God.