1 Timothy 5:2
and the elderly women as mothers, and those who are young as thy sisters, with all purity.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
In Context
1An elder do not reprimand, but persuade him as a father, and those who are young as thy brethren,
3The widows honour them who are widows in truth.
Cross References
John 19:26Jeshu seeth his mother, and that disciple whom he loved, standing; and he said to his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
1 Thessalonians 5:22And from every evil thing flee.
1 Timothy 5:3The widows honour them who are widows in truth.
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 →