Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ Let no widow be chosen who is under sixty years old, and let her be such a one as was the wife of one man, ¹⁰ and well reported of in good works: if she has raised children, if she has been generous to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has ministered to those who were in adversity, if she was continually given to all manner of good works. ¹¹ The younger widows refuse. For when they have begun to grow wanton, to the dishonour of Christ, then they want to marry, ¹² having condemnation because they have broken their first faith. ¹³ And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yea not only idle, but also gossiping and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

¹⁴ I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil. ¹⁵ For many of them have already turned back, and are gone after Satan.

¹⁶ And if any man or woman who believes has widows, let them minister to them, and do not let the congregation be charged, so that you may have sufficient for those who are widows indeed.