New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers,GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Never use harsh words when you correct an older man, but talk to him as if he were your father. Talk to younger men as if they were your brothers, King James Bible
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Administer Aged Appeal Authority Church Elder Entreat Entreating Exhort Harshly Intreat Mayest Older Persons Rather Rebuke Sharp Sharply Talk Treat Words Younger Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary Chapter 5 Here the apostle, I. Directs Timothy how to reprove (v. 1, 2). II. Adverts to widows, both elder and younger (v. 3-16). III. To elders (v. 17-19). IV. Treats of public reproof (v. 20). V. Gives a solemn charge concerning ordination (v. 21, 22). VI. Refers to his health (v. 23), and states men's sins to be very different in their effects (v. 24, 25). Verses 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 or office must be entreated as a father; on some have compassion, making a difference, Jude 22. Now the rule is, 1. To be very tender in rebuking elders-elders in age, elders by office. Respect must be had to the dignity of their years and place, and therefore they must not be rebuked sharply nor magisterially; but Timothy himself, though an evangelist, must entreat them as fathers, for this would be the likeliest way to work upon them, and to win upon them. 2. The younger must be rebuked as brethren, with love and tenderness; not as desirous, to spy faults or pick quarrels, but as being willing to make the best of them. There is need of a great deal of meekness in reproving those who deserve reproof. 3. The elder women must be reproved, when there is occasion, as mothers. Hos. 2:2, Plead with your mother, plead. 4. The younger women must be reproved, but reproved as sisters, with all purity. If Timothy, so mortified a man to this world and to the flesh and lusts of it, had need of such a caution as this, much more have we. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of God's Word to the Nations. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All rights reserved. Alphabetical: a an appeal as brothers but Do exhort father harshly he him if man men not older rather rebuke sharply the to Treat were younger your Bible Browser | 
