51 Timothy 5

CHAP. V. / 1 Rules to be obserued in reproouing. 3 Of widowes. 17 Of Elders. 23 A precept for Timothies health. 24 Some mens sinnes goe before vnto iudgement, and some mens doe follow after.

1Rebuke not an Elder, but intreate him as a father, and the yonger men as brethren:Select 1 Timothy 5:1

2The elder women as mothers, the yonger as sisters with all puritie.Select 1 Timothy 5:2

3Honour widowes that are widowes indeed.Select 1 Timothy 5:3

4But if any widow haue children or nephewes, let them learne first to shew pietie at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.Select 1 Timothy 5:4

5Now she that is a widow in deed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.Select 1 Timothy 5:5

6But she that liueth in pleasure, is dead while she liueth.Select 1 Timothy 5:6

7And these things giue in charge, that they may be blamelesse.Select 1 Timothy 5:7

8But if any prouide not for his owne, & specially for those of his owne house, bee hath denied the faith, and is worse then an infidel.Select 1 Timothy 5:8

9Let not a widow bee taken into the number, vnder threescore yeeres old, hauing bene the wife of one man,Select 1 Timothy 5:9

10Well reported of for good works, if shee haue brought vp children, if shee haue lodged strangers, if she haue washed the Saints feet, i f shee haue releeued the afflicted, if shee haue diligently followed euery good worke.Select 1 Timothy 5:10

11But the yonger widowes refuse: for when they haue begunne to waxe wanton against Christ, they will marry,Select 1 Timothy 5:11

12Hauing damnation, because they haue cast off their first faith.Select 1 Timothy 5:12

13And withall they learne to bee idle, wandering about from house to house; and not onely idle, but tatlers also, and busibodies, speaking things which they ought not.Select 1 Timothy 5:13

14I will therefore that the yonger women marry, beare children, guid the house, giue none occasion to the aduersary to speake reprochfully.Select 1 Timothy 5:14

15For some are already turned aside after Satan.Select 1 Timothy 5:15

16If any man or woman that beleeueth haue widowes, let them relieue them, and let not the Church be charged, that it may relieue them that are widowes indeed.Select 1 Timothy 5:16

17Let the Elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.Select 1 Timothy 5:17

18For the Scripture saith, Thou shalt not mousell the oxe that treadeth out the corne: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward.Select 1 Timothy 5:18

19Against an Elder receiue not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.Select 1 Timothy 5:19

20Them that sinne rebuke before all, that others also may feare.Select 1 Timothy 5:20

21I charge thee before God, and the Lord Iesus Christ, and the elect Angels, that thou obserue these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partialitie.Select 1 Timothy 5:21

22Lay hands suddenly on no man, either bee partaker of other mens sinnes. Keepe thy selfe pure.Select 1 Timothy 5:22

23Drinke no longer water, but vse a little wine for thy stomackes sake, and thine often infirmities.Select 1 Timothy 5:23

24Some mens sinnes are open before hand, going before to iudgement: and some men they follow after.Select 1 Timothy 5:24

25Likewise also the good works of some are manifest before hand, and they that are otherwise, cannot be hid.Select 1 Timothy 5:25