1 Timothy 5:2
Exhort/advise older women respectfully as you would exhort/advise your mother. Exhort/advise younger women gently as you would exhort/advise your sisters; but you must act in a completely proper way as you do that.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
In Context
3Make sure that the congregation takes care of widows who have no one to care for them.
Cross References
John 19:26Jesus saw his mother standing there. He also saw me standing nearby. Then he said to his mother, “This man will now be like your son.”
1 Thessalonians 5:22Do not obey any kind of evil message.
1 Timothy 5:3Make sure that the congregation takes care of widows who have no one to care for them.
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 →