Book 1 Timothy 4

The Book of 1 Timothy

Chapter 5

1: Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

2: The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

3: Honour widows that are widows indeed.
4: But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

5: Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers nightand day.

6: But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

7: And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

8: But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hathdenied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

9: Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.

10: Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washedthe saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligentlyfollowed every good work.

11: But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

12: Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

13: 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.

14: I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

15: For some are already turned aside after Satan.
16: If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

17: Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

18: For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
Deut 25:4 1 Cor 9:9 Matt 10:10

19: Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
Deut 19:15Mt 18:16 John 8:17 2 Cor 13:1

20: Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

21: I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

22: Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

23: Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

24: Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.

25: Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
1 Timothy 6