3. Teaching: Older women have the responsibility to instruct and guide younger women, passing on wisdom and practical knowledge about family life and godly living.Influence and MentorshipThe mentorship role of older women is crucial in the biblical framework. Their life experiences and spiritual ...
3Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderersor addicted to much wine,but to teach what is good.4Then they can urge the younger womento love their husbands and children,5to be self-controlledand pure, to be busy at home,to be kind, and...
5 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at...
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters,...
Age is valorized in many biblical passages, and older adults are revered in the Bible as sources of worldly and spiritual wisdom. For their part, parents are enjoined to treat their children with love and compassion, to teach them well, and to avoid alienating them or provoking them to ...
Treat younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. 3 Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need. 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into ...