Parallel Bible results for "1-timothy 5:1-7"

1 Timothy 5:1-7

Common English Bible CEB

1 Don't correct an older man, but encourage him like he's your father; treat younger men like your brothers,

2 treat older women like your mother, and treat younger women like your sisters with appropriate respect.

3 Take care of widows who are truly needy.

4 But if a particular widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to respect their own family and repay their parents, because this pleases God.

5 A widow who is truly needy and all alone puts her hope in God and keeps on going with requests and prayers, night and day.

6 But a widow who tries to live a life of luxury is dead even while she is alive.

7 Teach these things so that the families will be without fault.

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.

7 Give the people these instructions, so that no one may be open to blame.