1 Timothy 5:2

the older women as mothers, the younger women as sisters in all purity.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,

3Ever honor widows who are really widows;

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Cross References

John 19:26When Jesus saw his mother, and standing near her the disciple whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman behold your son."

1 Thessalonians 5:22Hold aloof from every form of evil.

1 Timothy 5:3Ever honor widows who are really 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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