1 Timothy 5:2

Exhort older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters in all purity.

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

In Context

1Do not scold an older man. Instead, exhort him as if he were a father. Exhort younger men as if they were brothers.

3Honor widows, the real widows.

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Cross References

John 19:26When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, see, your son!”

1 Thessalonians 5:22Avoid every appearance of evil.

1 Timothy 5:3Honor widows, the real 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 →

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