1 Timothy 5:11-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹¹ But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in Christ, they will marry:

¹² Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith.

¹³ And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

¹⁴ I will therefore that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

¹⁵ For some are already turned aside after Satan.

¹⁶ If any of the faithful have widows, let him minister to them, and let not the church be charged: that there may be sufficient for them that are widows indeed.

¹⁷ Let the priests that rule well, be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine:

¹⁸ For the scripture saith: Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

¹⁹ Against a priest receive not an accusation, but under two or three witnesses.

²⁰ Them that sin reprove before all: that the rest also may have fear.

²¹ I charge thee before God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by declining to either side.