1 Timothy 5:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πρεσβυτέρῳ μὴ ἐπιπλήξῃς, ἀλλὰ παρακάλει ὡς πατέρα· νεωτέρους ὡς ἀδελφούς·

Transliteration

Presbyterō mē epiplēxēs, alla parakalei hōs patera; neōterous hōs adelphous;

Grammar Details

• *Presbyterō*: dative, masculine, singular - elder/older man
• *mē*: negative particle with subjunctive - not
• *epiplēxēs*: aorist subjunctive, 2nd person singular - rebuke/reprove sharply
• *alla*: contrastive conjunction - but
• *parakalei*: present imperative, 2nd person singular - exhort/encourage/appeal to
• *hōs*: comparative particle - as
• *patera*: accusative, masculine, singular - father
• *neōterous*: accusative, masculine, plural - younger men
• *adelphous*: accusative, masculine, plural - brothers

Word Meanings

• *Presbyterō*: elder/older man/presbyter (church official)
• *epiplēxēs*: rebuke harshly/reprove severely
• *parakalei*: exhort/encourage/appeal to/comfort

Referenced Verses

• 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 {G2532} 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 {G3588} 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 {G3767} 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 your brother sin against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone: if he hear you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he hear you not, take with you 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 you as the Gentile and the tax collector.
• 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 {G3303} pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, {G2532} 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 {G2192} on their heads crowns of gold.