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

1 Timothy 5:1-7

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1 Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,
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, younger as sisters, with all purity.
2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
3 Honor widows who are really widows.
3 Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.
4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good 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 Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and 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 But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
6 But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
7 And these things command, that they may be blameless.
7 Give the people these instructions, so that no one may be open to blame.
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