Parallel Bible results for "1-timothy 5:1-6"

1 Timothy 5:1-6

GOD'S WORD Translation GW

1 Never use harsh words when you correct an older man, but talk to him as if he were your father. Talk to younger men as if they were your brothers,

2 older women as if they were your mothers, and younger women as if they were your sisters, while keeping yourself morally pure.

3 Honor widows who have no families.

4 The children or grandchildren of a widow must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents. This is pleasing in God's sight.

5 A widow who has no family has placed her confidence in God by praying and asking for his help night and day.

6 But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead although she is still alive.

New International Version NIV

1 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,

2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

3 Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.

4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.

5 The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.

6 But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.