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Speak To Everyone As You Would Your Own Family Members

Do not sharply-rebuke an older man, but be appealing-to[a] him as a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters in all purity.

Provide Church Support For Real Widows Attested By Faith And Good Works

Be honoring widows— the real[b] widows.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 5:1 Or, urging.
  2. 1 Timothy 5:3 As seen next, Paul means widows dependent on God alone in contrast to those with relatives, or whose character has not demonstrated a relationship to God or His family, or who are of marriageable age.

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