1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 5 1 Timothy 5:1,2 Directions to Timothy how to admonish persons of different conditions. 1 Timothy 5:3-16 Concerning widows. 1 Timothy 5:17,18 Elders, if they do well, are to be doubly honoured, 1 Timothy 5:19-21 and are not to be censured without full proof, and then openly and impartially, 1 Timothy 5:22 caution not to ordain any one precipitately. 1 Timothy 5:23 Advice respecting Timothy's health. 1 Timothy 5:24,25 Some men's characters are more easily discerned that those of others. Rebuke not an elder; it appeareth by the next verse, that the apostle by elder here understandeth not a church officer, but an ancient man. The word translated rebuke is translated too softly; it should be: Rebuke not too roughly, as appears by the opposite phrase, and indeed the word properly signifies to beat or lash. Rebuke him not but with a decent respect to his age. But entreat him as a father; so that thy reproofs may look more like counsels and exhortations than rebukes. And the younger men as brethren; prudence also must be used as to the yonnger men, ministers in rebuking them should remember that they are brethren, and treat them accordingly, not too imperiously.
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1 Timothy 5:1
1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;