7And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
These things command and teach.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 d…
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