⁴ That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

¹⁴ I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

² The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

¹¹ But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;