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

1 Timothy 5:1-7

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1 An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;
1 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,
2 aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;
2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
3 honour widows who are really widows;
3 Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.
4 and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
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 And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,
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 and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;
6 But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
7 and these things charge, that they may be blameless;
7 Give the people these instructions, so that no one may be open to blame.
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