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Treatment of Church Members

1 Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,
2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

Honor True Widows

3 Honor widows who are really widows.
4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and ato repay their parents; for this is1 good and acceptable before God.  
5 Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers anight and day.  
6 But she who lives in1 pleasure is dead while she lives.  
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What Does 1 Timothy 5:3 Mean?



1 Timothy 5:3-4

What Paul says here often presents great difficulties under modern conditions, especially when young people must choose between caring for parents and furthering their ambitions or establishing a home. Paul teaches that not only children but also grandchildren have a definite obligation to live their religion by providing for their needy parents or grandparents. He bluntly states that they are to repay them for all their kindness and sacrifices. A child can never wholly repay this debt, but still he should consider it a sacred obligation to make it up as much as possible.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Fifth Commandment (1997)

Related Topics: Caring for Elderly Parents | Caring for Needy Parents | Caring for Parents | Debt to Parents | Fifth Commandment | Honoring Parents | Parents | Parents, Honoring | The Fifth Commandment


 
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