004:015 Habitually practise these duties, and be absorbed in them; so that your growing proficiency in them may be evident to all.
004:016 Be on your guard as to yourself and your teaching.
Persevere in these things; for by doing this you will make
certain your own salvation and that of your hearers.
005:001 Never administer a sharp reprimand to a man older than yourself;
but entreat him as if he were your father, and the younger
men as brothers;
005:002 the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.
005:003 Honour widows who are really in need.
005:004 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.
005:005 A widow who is really in need, friendless and desolate, has her hopes fixed on God, and continues at her supplications and prayers, night and day;
005:006 but a pleasure-loving widow is dead even while still alive.
005:007 Press these facts upon them, so that they may live lives free from reproach.
005:008 But if a man makes no provision for those dependent on him, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is behaving worse than an unbeliever.