I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: / But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.