1 Timothy 5:2

Contextual Overview

¹ Don't speak angrily to an older man. But talk to him as if he were your father. Treat the younger men like brothers. ¹ Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father; treat younger men like brothers, ¹ Rebuke not an elder: but exhorte him as a father and the yonger me as brethren ¹ Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; ¹ Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, and to the younger men as brothers, ¹ Do not speak angrily to an older man, but plead with him as if he were your father. Treat younger men like brothers, ¹ Don't rebuke an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers: ¹ Rebuke not an elder, but entreat [him] as a father; [and] the younger men as brethren; ¹ Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, ¹ Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Bible Verse Review
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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 he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:27
And God created the man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:27
So God created human beings in his image. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female.

Genesis 1:27
God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

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 1:27
God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 1:27
And God made of nouyt a man to his ymage and liknesse; God made of nouyt a man, to the ymage of God; God made of nouyt hem, male and female.

Genesis 1:27
And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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.