1 Timothy 5:5-10 Now the woman who is a true widow, and living all alone, has placed her hope in God and continues to offer special requests and prayers for help ? night and day.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ Now the woman who is a true widow, and living all alone, has placed her hope in God and continues [to offer] special requests and prayers [for help ?] night and day. ⁶ But the widow who devotes herself to unrestrained pleasure is [spiritually] dead, even while still living. ⁷ Command these things also, so that they [i.e., the widows and their families] can live above reproach. ⁸ But if anyone does not provide for [the needs of] his own [relatives], and especially for his own [immediate] family, he has denied the faith [i.e., the fundamental beliefs of Christianity], and is worse than an unbeliever. ⁹ [But] do not put a widow on the list [i.e., of people being helped by the church. See Acts 6:1] who is under sixty years old. [And she must] have been the wife of one man, ¹⁰ having a reputation for doing good deeds, [such as] bringing up children, showing hospitality to strangers, washing the feet of the saints [i.e., God’s holy people], assisting people in trouble and devoting herself to doing all [other] kinds of good deeds.