1st Timothy Chapter 5 verse 7 Holy Bible
These things also command, that they may be without reproach.
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Give orders to this effect, so that no evil may be said of anyone.
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And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.
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And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
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Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
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and these things charge, that they may be blameless;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - These things also command for and these things give in charge, A.V.; without reproach for blameless, A.V. These things, etc. The apostle had been giving Timothy his own instructions concerning widows and their maintenance by their own relations. He now adds the direction that he should give these things in charge to the Ephesian Church, lest they should be guilty and blameworthy by acting in a different spirit. He probably was aware of a disposition existing in some quarters to throw the burden of maintaining their widows upon the Church. Without reproach (ἀνεπίληπτοι); above, 1 Timothy 3:2, note. If they did not so they would be liable to the terrible reproach mentioned in ver. 8, that, Christians as they called themselves, they were in their conduct worse than unbelievers.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) And these things give in charge.--That is to say, the duties of widows, as set forth in 1Timothy 5:5, together with his (St. Paul's) estimate of the gay and frivolous character painted in 1Timothy 5:6.That they may be blameless.--That, whether seeking support from the public alms of the Christian community or not, the widows of the congregation should struggle after an irreproachable self-denying life, and show before men publicly whose servants they indeed were. In these words there seems a hint that the former life of many of these women-converts to Christianity had been very different to the life loved of Christ, and that in their new profession as Christians there was urgent need of watchfulness on their part not to give any occasion to slanderous tongues.