1 Timothy 5:7
And this give in charge, that they may be blameless.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et hoc præcipe, ut irreprehensibiles sint.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καὶ ταῦτα παράγγελλε, ἵνα ἀνεπίλημπτοι ὦσιν·
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St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, 1 Timothy 4:11-14
Ver. 7 . “These things give in charge, that they may be blameless.” He does not leave it to their choice. Command them, he says, not to be luxurious, assuming it to be confessedly an evil, as not holding it lawful or admissible for the luxurious to partake of the Holy Mysteries. “These things command,” he says, “that they may be blameless.” Thus you see it is reckoned among sins. For if it were a matter of choice, though it were left undone, we might still be blameless. Therefore in obedience to Paul, let us command the luxurious widow not to have place in the list of widows. For if a soldier, who frequents the bath, the theater, the busy scenes of life, is judged to desert his duty, much more the widows. Let us then not seek our rest here, that we may find it hereafter. …