Give these instructions to the believers, so that they will be above reproach.
Parallel translations
- WEB Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
- KJV And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
- NKJV And these things command, that they may be blameless.
- NASB Give these instructions as well, so that they may be above reproach.
- NLT Give these instructions to the church so that no one will be open to criticism.
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Quick answer
Timothy is to teach these instructions plainly so that believers and their households live above reproach. Sound teaching aims at blameless conduct.
Overview
Paul charges Timothy to command these directives about widows and family duty so that God's people may be without reproach. The pastor's teaching is not abstract; it shapes practical holiness in homes and the church. A blameless reputation guards the gospel's witness before a watching world.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- 1 Tim 4:11Command and teach these things.
- Titus 2:15Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
- Titus 1:13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith
- 2 Tim 4:1I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:
- 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines
- 1 Tim 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
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