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1 Timothy 5:1-3
New Testament for Everyone
1 Timothy 5:1-3
New Testament for Everyone
Human families and God’s family
5 Don’t rebuke a senior man in the church, but exhort him as you might do with your father—or, in the case of younger ones, with your brothers. 2 Treat the older women as mothers, and the younger ones as sisters, with all purity.
3 Pay respect to widows who really are widows.
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1 Timothy 5:1-3
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1 Timothy 5:1-3
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Widows, Elders and Slaves
5 Do not rebuke an older man(A) harshly,(B) but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men(C) as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
3 Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.(D)
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