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The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy

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Do not speak harshly to a man older than yourself. Instead, encourage him as if he were your father. Do the same to younger men as if they were your brothers.
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Encourage older women as mothers, and younger women as if they were your sisters. Act toward them in a way that no one can criticize.

Honoring True Widows

(Ruth 1:1–5)
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Respect the widows if they are true widows.
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But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should honor their mother at home and pay her back for everything she has done for them. If they do this, they will please God.
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Now, a real widow is a widow who has no family members. So she depends on God and on what he gives her when she asks him and prays to him all day and night long.
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But a widow who lives for how she can please herself is dead, even though she is still alive.
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You should announce these things so that these widows and their families will not do anything wrong.
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But anyone who does not try to help his own relatives, especially those who live in his own house, that person rejects what we believe. He is, in fact, worse than an unbeliever.
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Put a woman on the list of true widows if she is more than sixty years old. She also must have had only one husband, to whom she had been faithful.
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People must know that she does good deeds: Perhaps she takes care of children; perhaps she welcomes strangers; perhaps she helps the believers or people who are suffering; or perhaps she is known for doing a large variety of good things.
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But do not put younger widows on the widows’ list, because they often want to marry again when they change their minds and put married love ahead of Messiah.
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When they do this, then they become guilty of going back on their commitment to being widows.
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Also, they go from house to house and get into the habit of doing nothing. They also engage in foolish and trivial activities and say things that they should not say.
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So I prefer that younger widows get married, have children, and run their households, so that Satan, the enemy, gets no opportunity to accuse them of doing wrong.
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I write these things because some younger widows have already left the way of Messiah to follow Satan.
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If any believing woman has widows among her relatives, let her help them, so those widows will not be a burden to the church. In this way the church will be able to help real widows.

Honoring Elders

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Let the believers give double honor to the elders who lead them well, and especially to the elders who preach and teach God’s word.
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For the scripture says, “You shall not keep the ox from eating the grain that he is treading out” and “The laborer deserves to get his pay.”
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Do not listen to anyone who accuses an elder of doing wrong, unless two or three people are testifying about the matter.
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Those who continue to sin, correct them where everyone can see you, so that the rest of the people will be afraid to sin.

A Charge to Timothy

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God, Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels see me as I solemnly command you to do these things. Be sure that you do not judge anyone before you should. Be sure that you do not favor one person over another when you lead the believers.
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When you want someone to begin to serve the believers, make no decision too quickly, so you do not choose them too soon. And do not be a partner with anyone in sinning. You must keep yourself without fault.
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No longer drink only water, Timothy. Instead, drink a little wine for your many stomach sicknesses.
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The sins of some people are clear to everyone, and the church does not need much time to judge them. But the church does not discover some sins until later.
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In the same way, some good deeds are clear to everybody, but even the other good deeds will become clear at some time in the future.
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Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
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the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Honoring True Widows

(Ruth 1:1–5)
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Honor widows who are widows indeed.
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But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is (a) acceptable in the sight of God.
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Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
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But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
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Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
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But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
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being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
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But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
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having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
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Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
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I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
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For already some have turned away after Satan.
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If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

Honoring Elders

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Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
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For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.”(b) And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.” (c)
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Don’t receive an accusation against an elder except at the word of two or three witnesses.
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Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

A Charge to Timothy

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I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
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Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
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Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
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Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.
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In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise cant be hidden.

Fußnoten

(a)5:4 TR adds “good and”
(b)5:18 ℘ Deuteronomy 25:4
(c)5:18 ℘ Luke 10:7; Leviticus 19:13