5:1
    [kjv]  Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
    [bbe]  Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:
5:2
    [kjv]  The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
    [bbe]  To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.
5:3 
    [kjv]  Honour widows that are widows indeed.
    [bbe]  Give honour to widows who are truly widows.
5:4  
    [kjv]  But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
    [bbe]  But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.
5:5  
    [kjv]  Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
    [bbe]  Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.
5:6
    [kjv]  But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
    [bbe]  But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.
5:7
    [kjv]  And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
    [bbe]  Give orders to this effect, so that no evil may be said of anyone.
5:8  
    [kjv]  But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
    [bbe]  If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.
5:9  
    [kjv]  Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
    [bbe]  Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,
5:10  
    [kjv]  Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
    [bbe]  And if witness is given of her good works; if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.
5:11
    [kjv]  But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
    [bbe]  But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;
5:12  
    [kjv]  Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
    [bbe]  And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;
5:13
    [kjv]  And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
    [bbe]  And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking fool............