1 Timothy 5:10-21 WEB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:3-16

Directions are here given concerning the taking of widows into the number of those who were employed by the church and had maintenance from the church: Honour widows that are widows indeed. Honour them, that is, maintain them, admit them into office. There was in those times an office in the church in which widows were employed, and that was to tend the sick and the aged, to look to them by the direction of the deacons. We read of the care taken of widows immediately upon the first forming of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:17-25

Here are directions, I. Concerning the supporting of ministers. Care must be taken that they be honourably maintained (1 Tim. 5:17): Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour (that is, of double maintenance, double to what they have had, or to what others have), especially those who labour in the word and doctrine, those who are more laborious than others. Observe, The presbytery ruled, and the same that ruled were those who laboured in the word and doctrine: they had... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:9-10

5:9-10 Let a woman be enrolled as a widow only if she is more than sixty years of age; if she has been the wife of one husband; if she has earned an attested reputation for good works; if she has nourished children; if she has been hospitable to strangers; if she has helped those in trouble; if she has washed the feet of the saints; if she has devoted herself to every good work. From this passage it is clear that the Church had an official register of widows; and it seems that the word... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:9-10

As we have already said, if not as early as the time of the Pastoral Epistles, certainly in later days, the widows became an accepted order in the Christian Church. Their place and work are dealt with in the first eight chapters of the third book of The Apostolic Constitutions, and these chapters reveal the use that such an order could be and the dangers into which it almost inevitably ran. (i) It is laid down that women who would serve the Church must be women of discretion. Particularly... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:11-16

5:11-16 Refuse to enrol the younger women as widows, for when they grow impatient with the restrictions of Christian widowhood, they wish to marry, and so deserve condemnation, because they have broken the pledge of their first faith; and, at the same time, they learn to be idle and to run from house to house. Yes, they can become more than idle; they can become gossips and busybodies, saying things which should not be repeated. It is my wish that the younger widows should marry, and bear... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:17-22

5:17-22 Let elders who discharge their duties well be judged worthy of double honour, especially those who toil in preaching and in teaching; for Scripture says: "You must not muzzle the ox when he is treading the corn," and, "The workman deserves his pay." Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless on the evidence of two or three witnesses. Rebuke those who persist in sin in the presence of all, so that the others may develop a healthy fear of sinning. I... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:17-22

(iii) Those who persist in sin are to be publicly rebuked. That public rebuke had a double value. It sobered the sinner into a consideration of his ways; and it made others have a care that they did not involve themselves in a like humiliation. The threat of publicity is no bad thing, if it keeps a man in the right way, even from fear. A wise leader will know the time to keep things quiet and the time for public rebuke. But whatever happens, the Church must never give the impression that it is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:10

Well reported of for good works ,.... Both by the members of the church, and by them that were without: particularly if she have brought up children ; that is, "well", as the Arabic version adds; in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; commanding them, as Abraham did, to keep the way of the Lord, and to do justice and judgment; training them up in the paths of religion and virtue, from which they will not so easily depart when grown up. If she have lodged strangers ; as Abraham... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:11

But the younger widows refuse ,.... To admit them into the number of widows relieved by the church; partly because they are fit for labour, and so can take care of themselves; and partly because they may marry, as the apostle afterwards advises they should, and so would have husbands to take care of them: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ ; that is, being at ease, and without labour, live a wanton, loose, and licentious life, and in carnal lusts and pleasures,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:12-13

And withal they learn to be idle ,.... Being at ease, and without labour, living at the expense of the church: "wandering about from house to house"; having nothing else to do: such an one is what the Jews F26 T. Bab. Sota, fol. 22. 1. call אלמנה שובבית , "the gadding widow"; who, as the gloss says, "goes about and visits her neighbours continually; and these are they that corrupt the world.' Of this sort of women must the Jews be understood, when they say F1 Bereshit... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:3-16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:17-25

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:9-10

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:9-10

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:11-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:17-22

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Timothy 5:17-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:12-13

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