These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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1 Timothy 5
Brit Hadashah 24 verses
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Never administer a sharp reprimand to a man older than yourself; but entreat him as if he were your father, and the younger men as brothers;
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1 Peter 5:5-6 Leviticus 19:32 Titus 2:6 Titus 2:2 1 Timothy 5:19-20 1 Timothy 5:17 Galatians 6:1 1 Peter 5:1 Titus 1:5-6 Acts 14:23 Acts 15:4 Matthew 18:15-17 Romans 13:7 Matthew 23:8 Revelation 4:4 Deuteronomy 33:9 James 5:14 Philemon 1:9-10 Acts 20:17 Galatians 2:11-14 3 John 1:1 Acts 15:6 2 Timothy 2:24-25 James 3:17 2 John 1:1 -
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the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with modesty.
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Honour widows who are really in need.
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Deuteronomy 10:18 Acts 6:1 Exodus 20:12 Deuteronomy 27:19 Deuteronomy 16:14 Deuteronomy 14:29 Deuteronomy 16:11 Acts 9:39 Luke 2:37 James 1:27 Jeremiah 49:11 Psalm 146:9 1 Timothy 5:9-11 Psalm 94:6 Job 29:13 Job 31:16 Psalm 68:5 1 Timothy 5:16-17 Luke 7:12 1 Thessalonians 2:6 1 Peter 3:7 1 Timothy 5:4-5 1 Peter 2:17 Matthew 23:13 1 Timothy 5:2 Matthew 15:6 John 1:47 - 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of .
- 5 A widow who is really in need, friendless and desolate, has her hopes fixed on , and continues at her supplications and prayers, night and day;
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but a pleasure-loving widow is dead even while still alive.
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James 5:5 Revelation 3:1 Luke 15:24 Ephesians 5:14 Isaiah 22:13 Luke 15:13 1 Samuel 25:6 Luke 12:19 Luke 15:32 Isaiah 47:1 Revelation 18:7 Matthew 8:22 Psalm 73:5-7 Deuteronomy 28:54 Colossians 2:13 Luke 7:25 Lamentations 4:5 Job 21:11-15 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Deuteronomy 28:56 1 Samuel 15:32 Ephesians 2:5 Ephesians 2:1 Proverbs 29:21 Jeremiah 6:2 Amos 6:5-6 Luke 16:19 -
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Press these facts upon them, so that they may live lives free from reproach.
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- 8 But if a man makes no provision for those dependent on him, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the and is behaving worse than an unbeliever.
- 9 No widow is to be put on the roll who is under sixty years of age.
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She must have been true to her one husband, and well reported of for good deeds, as having brought up children, received strangers hospitably, washed the feet of Elohim’s people, given relief to the distressed, and devoted herself to good works of every kind.
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Titus 3:8 1 Timothy 6:18 Luke 7:44 Acts 9:36 1 Peter 2:12 Luke 7:38 Romans 12:13 Hebrews 13:2 Matthew 5:16 Titus 2:7 Genesis 18:4 1 Timothy 2:10 Genesis 19:2 Ephesians 2:10 Acts 9:39 1 Timothy 5:25 1 Peter 4:9 Titus 3:14 Leviticus 25:35 Titus 3:1 Acts 22:12 Hebrews 10:24 Psalm 119:4 Acts 10:22 2 Timothy 2:21 Colossians 1:10 John 13:5-15 2 Timothy 3:17 2 Timothy 3:15 1 Timothy 3:7 2 Timothy 1:5 Acts 6:3 1 Timothy 5:16 Acts 16:14-15 Hebrews 13:21 Titus 2:14 Genesis 24:32 3 John 1:12 Isaiah 1:17 - 11 But the younger widows you must not enrol; for as soon as they begin to chafe against the yoke of , they want to marry,
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and they incur disapproval for having broken their original vow.
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- 13 And at the same time they also learn to be idle as they go round from house to house; and they are not only idle, but are gossips also and busybodies, speaking of things that ought not to be spoken of.
- 14 I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children, rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no excuse for slander.
- 15 For already some of them have gone astray, following .
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If a believing woman has widows dependent on her, she should relieve their wants, and the Church from being burdened—so that the Church may relieve the widows who are really in need.
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Let the Elders who perform their duties wisely and well be held worthy of double , especially those who labour in preaching and teaching.
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Luke 10:7 Romans 12:8 Philippians 2:29 Hebrews 13:17 Hebrews 13:7 Galatians 6:6 2 Timothy 2:6 1 Corinthians 9:5-14 2 Corinthians 6:1 Luke 12:42 Isaiah 40:2 Luke 10:1-2 Hebrews 13:24 Philippians 4:3 Romans 16:12 Jeremiah 17:18 Matthew 24:25 Jeremiah 16:18 1 Timothy 4:16 1 Timothy 4:6 2 Timothy 4:2 Zechariah 9:12 1 Corinthians 15:10 1 Corinthians 3:9 1 Timothy 3:5 Acts 20:35 Philippians 2:16 Acts 28:10 John 4:38 1 Corinthians 16:16 2 Kings 2:9 Matthew 9:37-38 1 Timothy 4:10 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 1 Timothy 5:3 Acts 11:30 Romans 15:27 - 18 For the Scripture says, “You are not to muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain;” and the workman deserves his pay.
- 19 Never entertain an accusation against an Elder except on the evidence of two of three witnesses.
- 20 Those who persist in sin reprove in the presence of all, so that it may also be a warning to the rest.
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I solemnly call upon you, in the presence of and of and of the elect angels, to carry out these instructions of mine without prejudice, and to do nothing from partiality.
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2 Timothy 4:1 1 Timothy 6:13 2 Peter 2:4 Jude 1:6 2 Timothy 2:14 James 2:1-4 2 Corinthians 5:16 Matthew 25:41 Matthew 16:27 Acts 15:37-38 Leviticus 19:15 Deuteronomy 33:9 Proverbs 18:5 Psalm 119:34 James 3:17 1 Thessalonians 5:27 Deuteronomy 1:7 Revelation 12:7-9 Malachi 2:9 Psalm 107:43 Matthew 28:20 Luke 20:21 Revelation 14:10 - 22 Do not ordain any one hastily; and do not be a partaker in the sins of others; keep *yourself* pure.
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The sins of some men are evident to the world, leading the way to your estimate of their characters, but the sins of others lag behind.
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- 25 So also the right actions of some are evident to the world, and those that are not cannot remain for ever out of sight.