51 Timothy 5

1An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;Select 1 Timothy 5:1

2aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;Select 1 Timothy 5:2

3honour widows who are really widows;Select 1 Timothy 5:3

4and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.Select 1 Timothy 5:4

5And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,Select 1 Timothy 5:5

6and she who is given to luxury, living--hath died;Select 1 Timothy 5:6

7and these things charge, that they may be blameless;Select 1 Timothy 5:7

8and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.Select 1 Timothy 5:8

9A widow--let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,Select 1 Timothy 5:9

10in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;Select 1 Timothy 5:10

11and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,Select 1 Timothy 5:11

12having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,Select 1 Timothy 5:12

13and at the same time also, they learn to be idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;Select 1 Timothy 5:13

14I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;Select 1 Timothy 5:14

15for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.Select 1 Timothy 5:15

16If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.Select 1 Timothy 5:16

17The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,Select 1 Timothy 5:17

18for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy is the workman of his reward.'Select 1 Timothy 5:18

19Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.Select 1 Timothy 5:19

20Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;Select 1 Timothy 5:20

21I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.Select 1 Timothy 5:21

22Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;Select 1 Timothy 5:22

23no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;Select 1 Timothy 5:23

24of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;Select 1 Timothy 5:24

25in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.Select 1 Timothy 5:25