1 Timothy 5:2

older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with the highest standards of decency.

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The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

In Context

1Don't rebuke a man who is older than you. Instead, encourage him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,

3Help widows who don't have a family.

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Cross References

John 19:26When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Mother, this is your son.”

1 Thessalonians 5:22keep away from every kind of evil.

1 Timothy 5:3Help widows who don't have a family.

Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 5:2-3

Directions Concerning Reproofs. ( a. d. 64.) 1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. Here the apostle gives rules to Timothy, and in him to other ministers, in reproving. Ministers are reprovers by office; it is a part, though the least pleasing part, of their office; they are to preach the word, to reprove and rebuke, 2 Tim. iv. 2 . A great difference is to be made in our reproofs, according to the… Read the whole commentary →

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