⁴ that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

¹⁴ I desire therefore that the younger `widows' marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

² the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

¹¹ But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;