1 Timothy 5:7 - Exposition

These things also command for and these things give in charge , A.V.; without reproach for blameless , A.V. These things , etc. The apostle had been giving Timothy his own instructions concerning widows and their maintenance by their own relations. He now adds the direction that he should give these things in charge to the Ephesian Church, lest they should be guilty and blameworthy by acting in a different spirit. He probably was aware of a disposition existing in some quarters to throw the burden of maintaining their widows upon the Church. Without reproach ( ἀνεπίληπτοι ); above, 1 Timothy 3:2 , note. If they did not so they would be liable to the terrible reproach mentioned in 1 Timothy 3:8 , that, Christians as they called themselves, they were in their conduct worse than unbelievers.