1 Timothy 5:2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. Full of the power which comes from feminine pity. Full of motherly experiences about children. Fall of daily care and the deaconate of serving the home-tables. Full of a great heart-love that would make a roof-tree for all, as a hen that gathereth her chickens under her wings. Timothy will yet learn in the Church work the value of a mother in Israel. 1. Mothers were our first pastors. 2. Mothers were our earliest examples. The younger as sisters, with all purity. Beautiful is the holy grace of purity, and sensitive is the girl-heart to the loveliness of true virtue! Put them not into confessionals to suggest sins that they never knew, and deprave the nature under the pretence of absolving it. - W.M.S. Parallel Verses KJV: The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.WEB: the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. |
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