1 Timothy 5:5-7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁵ The real widow, left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,^{(A) 6} but the widow^[a] who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.^{(B) 7} Give these commands as well, so that they may be above reproach.^(C)