1 Timothy 5:7

7 Tell the believers to do these things so that no one can criticize them.

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 The true widow, who is all alone, puts her hope in God and continues to pray night and day for God's help.

6 But the widow who uses her life to please herself is really dead while she is alive.

7 Tell the believers to do these things so that no one can criticize them.

8 Whoever does not care for his own relatives, especially his own family members, has turned against the faith and is worse than someone who does not believe in God.

9 To be on the list of widows, a woman must be at least sixty years old. She must have been faithful to her husband.