Honor widows who are truly widows.
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
Honour widows that are widows indeed. Who those are, see in Ti1 1:5. The honour to be given them is not a putting of them into the office of a deaconess, in the church; which office, some think, is referred to in Act 6:1, and did obtain in some of the primitive churches; and it might be that some of these widows, the apostle here...