1 Timothy 5:2
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
In Context
1Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,
3Honor the widows who are truly widows.
Cross References
John 19:26When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”
1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.
1 Timothy 5:3Honor the widows who are truly widows.
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 →