So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
Do not harshly rebuke an elder man, but exhort him as you would your father. Correction is medicine and always bitter; respect for age makes him more willing to bear reproof. Yet this does not mean sparing old men to sin without correction, only that you moderate your tone so they may hear you.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 5:1-25
Honor widows truly widows indeed, those desolate and alone who trust in God and give themselves to prayer. But widows who live in pleasure, who gad about idle and talkative, meddling in affairs not theirs and spreading what they ought not speak: these the church must not maintain.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 5:3-16
I will therefore that the younger women marry,.... Or "the younger" widows rather; and so some copies read; for this is not the apostle's advice to young women in general, though it will suit with them, but with younger widows in particular, of whom he is speaking: bear children; and bring them forth, and feed, and nourish them, and bring them up in a religious...