1 Timothy 5:1

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Lev 19:32 : 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
  • 1 Pet 5:5-6 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;
  • 1 Tim 5:19-20 : 19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at [the mouth of] two or three witnesses. 20 Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:
  • Titus 2:6 : 6 the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
  • 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
  • Titus 1:5-6 : 5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge; 6 if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.
  • Rom 13:7 : 7 Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due] ; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
  • Matt 18:15-17 : 15 And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. 16 But if he hear [thee] not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established. 17 And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.
  • Matt 23:8 : 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.
  • Acts 14:23 : 23 And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
  • Acts 15:4 : 4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church and the apostles and the elders, and they rehearsed all things that God had done with them.
  • Acts 15:6 : 6 And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter.
  • Acts 20:17 : 17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church.
  • Gal 2:11-14 : 11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before that certain came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
  • Deut 33:9 : 9 Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brethren, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed thy word, And keep thy covenant.
  • 2 Tim 2:24-25 : 24 And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, 25 in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,
  • Phlm 1:9-9 : 9 yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus: 10 I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.
  • Jas 5:14 : 14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
  • 2 John 1:1 : 1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;
  • 3 John 1:1 : 1 The elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.
  • Rev 4:4 : 4 And round about the throne [were] four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones [I saw] four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.

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  • 1 Tim 5:2-4
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    2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

    3Honor widows that are widows indeed.

    4But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

  • 1 Pet 5:1-3
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    1The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

    2Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

    3neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

  • 1 Pet 5:5-6
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    5Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

    6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

  • Titus 2:2-6
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    2that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

    3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5[ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

    6the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:

  • 1 Tim 5:19-20
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    19Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at [the mouth of] two or three witnesses.

    20Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

  • Eph 6:4-5
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    4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

    5Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

  • 2 Thess 3:15
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    15And [yet] count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

  • 1 Thess 5:11-15
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    11Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

    12But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

    13and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

    14And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

    15See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.

  • 1 Tim 5:17
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    17Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

  • 1 Tim 4:11-12
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    11These things command and teach.

    12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

  • Titus 2:15
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    15These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

  • Heb 12:5
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    5and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

  • Prov 15:5
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    5A fool despiseth his father's correction; But he that regardeth reproof getteth prudence.

  • Col 3:21
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    21Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

  • Job 15:10
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    10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

  • Lev 19:32
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    32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

  • Titus 1:5-7
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    5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;

    6if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

    7For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

  • 1 Pet 2:17
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    17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

  • 1 Tim 5:9
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    9Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,

  • Prov 23:22
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    22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

  • Jas 5:19
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    19My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;

  • 1 Tim 5:11
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    11But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

  • Prov 17:6
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    6Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

  • 1 Thess 2:11
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    11as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,

  • 1 Tim 5:7
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    7These things also command, that they may be without reproach.

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

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    1It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father's wife.

  • Eph 5:11
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    11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

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    1Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

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    9[ Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;

  • Gal 6:1
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    1Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.