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King James Version

1 Timothy 5:2

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Commandments;   Continence;   Minister, Christian;   Reproof;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Honour;   Old Age;   Respect;   Reverence;   Social Duties;   Young People;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Age, Old (the Aged);   Sexuality, Human;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Timothy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aging;   Friend, Friendship;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Purity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Family;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Young Men;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elder in the New Testament;   Pure;   Widow;   Woman;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The elder women as mothers, the yonger as sisters, with all purenesse.
Christian Standard Bible®
older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity.
Hebrew Names Version
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
Darby Translation
elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
Easy-to-Read Version
Treat the older women like mothers. And treat the younger women with respect like sisters.
Amplified Bible
to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters, in all purity [being careful to maintain appropriate relationships].
American Standard Version
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
Berean Standard Bible
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
Contemporary English Version
and treat older women as you would your own mother. Show the same respect to younger women that you would to your sister.
Complete Jewish Bible
older women like mothers and younger women like sisters, with absolute purity.
International Standard Version
older women like mothers, and younger women like sisters, with absolutely purity.
Etheridge Translation
and the elderly women as mothers, and those who are young as thy sisters, with all purity.
Murdock Translation
and the elder women, as mothers; and the younger women, as thy sisters, with all purity.
King James Version (1611)
The elder women as mothers, the yonger as sisters with all puritie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, in all chastitie.
English Revised Version
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
Lexham English Bible
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
Literal Translation
older women as mothers, younger ones as sisters, in all purity.
New American Standard Bible
to the older women as mothers, and to the younger women as sisters, in all purity.
New Century Version
older women like mothers, and younger women like sisters. Always treat them in a pure way.
New English Translation
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters—with complete purity.
New King James Version
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
New Living Translation
Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters.
New Revised Standard
to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Elderly women, as mothers, younger women, as sisters, in all chastity.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Old women, as mothers: young women, as sisters, in all chastity.
George Lamsa Translation
And the elder women treat as mothers, and the younger as your sisters, with all purity.
Good News Translation
the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with all purity.
World English Bible
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Weymouth's New Testament
the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
yonge wymmen as sistris, in al chastite.
Webster's Bible Translation
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Revised Standard Version
older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
the elder wemen as mothers ye yonger as sisters with all purenes.
Update Bible Version
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
Young's Literal Translation
aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;
Bible in Basic English
To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the elder wemen as mothers: the yonger as sisters with all purenes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the elder women as mothers; the younger, as sisters, with all purity.
New Life Bible
Talk to older women as mothers. Talk to younger women as sisters, keeping yourself pure.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Treat older women like your mother and younger cowgirls the same as your little sister. Help keep these young women pure.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.
Legacy Standard Bible
the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Contextual Overview

1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

elder: 1 Timothy 5:3, Matthew 12:50, John 19:26, John 19:27

with: 1 Timothy 4:12, Philippians 4:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:22, 2 Timothy 2:22

Reciprocal: Matthew 23:9 - call Romans 16:1 - our Romans 16:13 - his 1 Corinthians 9:5 - a sister 2 Corinthians 6:6 - pureness Titus 2:4 - the 1 Peter 1:22 - a pure

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:23
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Malachi 2:15
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Matthew 19:4
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The elder women as mothers,.... When they offend in any point, they are to be reasoned, and argued, and pleaded with, as children should with their mothers; see Hosea 2:2 and are to be considered as mothers in Israel, and to be treated with great tenderness and respect.

The younger as sisters; using the freedom as a brother may with a sister; and considering them as sisters in Christ, and in a way becoming the relation, tell them their faults freely and privately, but

with all purity: in such manner as to preserve chastity in looks, in words, and actions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The elder women as mothers - Showing still the same respect for age, and for the proprieties of life. No son who had proper feelings would rebuke his own mother with severity. Let the minister of religion evince the same feelings if he is called to address a “mother in Israel” who has erred.

The younger as sisters - With the feelings which you have toward a sister. The tender love which one has for a beloved sister would always keep him from using harsh and severe language. The same mildness, gentleness, and affection should be used toward a sister in the church.

With all purity - Nothing could be more characteristic of Paul’s manner than this injunction; nothing could show a deeper acquaintance with human nature. He knew the danger which would beset a youthful minister of the gospel when it was his duty to admonish and entreat a youthful female; he knew, too, the scandal to which he might be exposed if, in the performance of the necessary duties of his office, there should be the slightest departure from purity and propriety. He was therefore to guard his heart with more than common vigilance in such circumstances, and was to indulge in no word, or look, or action, which could by any possibility be construed as manifesting an improper state of feeling. On nothing else do the fair character and usefulness of a youthful minister more depend, than on the observance of this precept. Nowhere else does he more need the grace of the Lord Jesus, and the exercise of prudence, and the manifestation of incorruptible integrity, than in the performance of this duty. A youthful minister who fails here, can never recover the perfect purity of an unsullied reputation, and never in subsequent life be wholly free from suspicion; compare notes, Matthew 5:28.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Timothy 5:2. The elder women as mothers — Treating them with the respect due to their age.

The younger as sisters — Feel for every member of the Church, old and young, male and female; consider them as fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters; treat them all with gentleness; and labour to keep them in, not to expel them from, the Church.

With all purity. — εν παση αγνεια. With all chastity. See note on 1 Timothy 4:12.

There are some who seem to take a barbarous pleasure in expelling members from, the Church. They should be continued in as long as possible; while they are in the Church-under its ordinances and discipline, there is some hope that their errors may be corrected; but when once driven out again into the world, that hope must necessarily become extinct. As judgment is God's strange work, so excommunication should be the strange, the last, and the most reluctantly performed work of every Christian minister.


 
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