Honor widows who are truly widows.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.

But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

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

And there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the 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.

An overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober- minded, well ordered, hospitable, able to teach;

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

Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to leave her husband.

But, indeed, in case she does leave, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to send away his wife.

A wife is bound by Law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she remains so, according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.