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Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

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Duties toward Believers

Do not speak harshly to an older man,[a] but speak to him as to a father, to younger men as brothers,(A) to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.

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Footnotes

  1. 5.1 Or an elder or a presbyter