Bible verse
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
1 Timothy 5:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Timothy 5.
1 Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,
2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
3 Honor the widows who are truly widows.
4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
5 The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
6 But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
KJV
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
ASV
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
ERV
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
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