1Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
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Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. …
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)Here the apostle gives rules to Timothy, and in him to other ministers, in reproving. Ministers are reprovers by office; it is a part, though the least pleasing part, of their office; they are to preach the word, to reprove and rebuke, 2 Tim. 4:2. A great difference is to be made in our reproofs, according to the age, quality, and other circumstances, of the persons rebuked; thus, and elder in age…
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