1 Timothy 5

¹Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;Selected1 Timothy 5:1CopyShareAsk

²The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.Selected1 Timothy 5:2CopyShareAsk

³Honour widows that are widows indeed.Selected1 Timothy 5:3CopyShareAsk

⁴But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.Selected1 Timothy 5:4CopyShareAsk

⁵Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.Selected1 Timothy 5:5CopyShareAsk

⁶But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.Selected1 Timothy 5:6CopyShareAsk

⁷And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.Selected1 Timothy 5:7CopyShareAsk

⁸But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.Selected1 Timothy 5:8CopyShareAsk

⁹Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,Selected1 Timothy 5:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.Selected1 Timothy 5:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;Selected1 Timothy 5:11CopyShareAsk

¹²Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.Selected1 Timothy 5:12CopyShareAsk

¹³And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.Selected1 Timothy 5:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.Selected1 Timothy 5:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵For some are already turned aside after Satan.Selected1 Timothy 5:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.Selected1 Timothy 5:16CopyShareAsk

¹⁷Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.Selected1 Timothy 5:17CopyShareAsk

¹⁸For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.Selected1 Timothy 5:18CopyShareAsk

¹⁹Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.Selected1 Timothy 5:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.Selected1 Timothy 5:20CopyShareAsk

²¹I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.Selected1 Timothy 5:21CopyShareAsk

²²Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.Selected1 Timothy 5:22CopyShareAsk

²³Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.Selected1 Timothy 5:23CopyShareAsk

²⁴Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.Selected1 Timothy 5:24CopyShareAsk

²⁵Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.Selected1 Timothy 5:25CopyShareAsk