1 Timothy 5:7

7 Therefore command these things, that they may be blameless.

1 Timothy 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Timothy 5:7

And these things give in charge
Concerning rebuking persons of a different age and sex, and concerning the maintenance of widows; and particularly that children provide for their parents when helpless; and that widows trust in God, and give themselves to prayer and supplication, and not live in sin:

that they may be blameless;
before men, and in the view of the world, and not be chargeable with any notorious crime; though none are without blame in themselves, and before God, but as considered in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 5:7 In-Context

5 Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate, trusts in God, and is diligent in supplications and prayers night and day,

6 but she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

7 Therefore command these things, that they may be blameless.

8 But if any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

9 Let a widow be placed on the list being not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,