And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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
Verse 13. And withal. In addition to the prospect that they may marry again, there are other disadvantages which might follow from such an arrangement, and other evils to be feared, which it is desirable to avoid. They learn to be idle.