1 Timothy 5:1

1 Timothy 5:1

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.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Rebuke not an elder (presbuterw mh epiplhchv). Dative case presbuterw used in the usual sense of an older man, not a minister (bishop as in I Timothy 3:2) as is shown by "as a father." First aorist (ingressive) active subjunctive with negative mh (prohibition against committing the act) of epiplhssw, to strike upon, old verb, but here only in N.T. and in figurative sense with words rather than with fists. Respect for age is what is here commanded, an item appropriate to the present time.

The younger men as brethren (newterouv wv adelfouv). Comparative adjective newterov from neov (young). No article, "younger men." Wise words for the young minister to know how to conduct himself with old men (reverence) and young men (fellowship, but not stooping to folly with them).

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