1st Timothy Chapter 5 verse 2 Holy Bible
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
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To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.
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elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
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The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
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the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
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aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - In for with, A.V. Purity (ἀγνείᾳ); see 1 Timothy 4:12, note. See how jealously the apostle guards against any possibility of abuse of the familiar intercourse of a clergy- man with the women of his flock. They are his sisters, and ἀγνείω is to be the constant condition of his heart and character.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) The elder women as mothers.--The same watchful care against all assumption of superiority must also be exercised in his dealings with the Christian matrons of Ephesus.The younger as sisters, with all purity.--In the case of the younger women, St. Paul adds to his directions respecting brotherly and sisterly regard a grave word, urging upon Timothy, and all official teachers like Timothy, to add to this self-denying, loving friendship a ceaseless watchfulness in all their conversation, so as not to afford any ground for suspicion; for, above all things, the recognised teacher of Christianity must be pure. No one can read and forget the quaint words of advice of St. Jerome: "Omnes puellas et virgines Christi, aut aequaliter ignora aut aegualiter dilige."
