1 Timothy 5:1-8

"[You, as God's family,] take care of any widow who has no one else to care for her. But if she has children or grandchildren, their first..."

"Dear Father, Help me treat everyone in your family appropriately and with great respect: older men like fathers, older women like mothers, younger..."

"But if [a Christian widow] has children or grandchildren, their first responsibility is to show godliness at home and repay their parents by taking....."

"Never speak harshly to an older man, but appeal to him respectfully as you would to your own father. Talk to younger men as you would to your own..."

"Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father."

"Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need."

"Now a true widow, a woman who is truly alone in this world, has placed her hope in God. She prays night and day, asking God for his help. But the..."

"Take care of any widow who has no one else to care for her. . . . A widow who is put on the list for support must be a woman who is at least....."