To Timothy, a true son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Treatment of Church Members

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,