Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach.
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
And these things give in charge,.... Concerning rebuking persons of a different age and sex, and concerning the maintenance of widows; and particularly that children provide for their parents when helpless; and that widows trust in God, and give themselves to prayer and supplication, and not live in sin: that they may be blameless; before men, and in the view of the world, and not...