1 Timothy 5:1-3

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Duties toward Believers

5 Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father; treat younger men like brothers, ²older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.

³Honor widows who are real widows.^[a]

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Footnotes

5.3 real widows: i.e., with no one to help and support them.

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