³ Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.^(A)

¹⁶ If any woman who is a believer has widows in her care, she should continue to help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need.^(A)

³⁷ and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.^[a](A) She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.^(B)

³² I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs^(A)—how he can please the Lord.