51An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;+2aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;+
3honour widows who are really widows;+4and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.+5And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,+6and she who is given to luxury, living--hath died;+7and these things charge, that they may be blameless;+8and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.+9A widow--let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,+10in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;+11and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,+12having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,+13and at the same time also, they learn to be idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;+14I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;+15for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.+16If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.+
Honoring Elders
17The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,+18for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy is the workman of his reward.'+19Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.+20Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;+
A Charge to Timothy
21I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.+22Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;+23no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;+24of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;+25in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.+
Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation (1898). Public domain.
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