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Do not be angry with an older man if he has done something wrong, but talk kindly to him as you would talk to your father. Talk to the young men like brothers.

Talk to the older women like mothers. Talk to the young women like sisters. And be sure to keep a clean mind and heart in all this.

Help widow women, whose husbands are dead, if they have no one to help them.

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Widows, Elders and Slaves

Do not rebuke an older man(A) harshly,(B) but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men(C) as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.(D)

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