1 Timothy 5:2
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New International Version (©1984)
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters.

English Standard Version (©2001)
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

International Standard Version (©2008)
older women like mothers, and younger women like sisters, with absolute purity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
older women as if they were your mothers, and younger women as if they were your sisters, while keeping yourself morally pure.

King James Bible
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

American King James Version
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

American Standard Version
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Bible in Basic English
To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Old women, as mothers: young women, as sisters, in all chastity.

Darby Bible Translation
elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

English Revised Version
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Webster's Bible Translation
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

Weymouth New Testament
the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.

World English Bible
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Young's Literal Translation
aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

Geneva Study Bible

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

People's New Testament

5:1,2 The Widows of the Church

SUMMARY OF I TIMOTHY 5:

Rules for Reproving. Honoring Widows. How They Should Be Supported. Who Are to Be Taken into the Number of Widows. The Younger Widows. The Presbyters. A Charge Concerning Timothy's Death.

Rebuke not an elder. An aged man. Treat him with deference due to age. It is evident from the four classes named together, the aged women, and the young women, that the reference in the word elder is not to office, but to age.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. with all purity-respectful treatment of the other sex will promote "purity."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:1,2 Respect must be paid to the dignity of years and place. The younger, if faulty, must be rebuked, not as desirous to find fault with them, but as willing to make the best of them. There is need of much meekness and care in reproving those who deserve reproof.


1 Timothy 5:1 Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers,
1 Timothy 5:3 Honor widows who are widows indeed; (NASB ©1995)

Absolute Aged Clean Elder Heart Modesty Mothers Older Ones Perfect Purity Sisters Women Younger


The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

elder. 3 Mt 12:50 Joh 19:26,27

with. 4:12 Php 4:8 1Th 5:22 2Ti 2:22

Bible Gateway: 1 Timothy Chapter 5 Verse 2 NIV ESV NKJV NLT KJV Message Amplified

Alphabetical: absolute all and as in mothers older purity sisters the with women younger

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