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To: Lonely Bull

Correcting your misquote of 1 Timothy 5:14...(ESV)

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.


440 posted on 05/11/2015 5:52:14 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero
Correcting your misquote of 1 Timothy 5:14...(ESV) So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

Thanks for the tip. I'd call what I did misediting: what I posted at "1 Timothy" otherwise duplicates of what lies two entries below in 1 Thessalonians 5:14. I apologize for any misleading. 1 Timothy 5:14 is not what I intended, although coincidentally (or providentially?) the end there has a slight connection to other texts.

Instead, substitute this text and mentally move it to a place with the other "evidently not opposed" entries:

[1 Timothy 6:11] But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
[These qualities are evidently not opposed to one another.]

That reminds me: take note that both 1 Timothy (5:20) and Titus (1:13) also contain commands to rebuke (Titus 1:13 actually has "rebuke them sharply"]. Unless contradictions appear in the same book, though, these rebukes are probably not what the world has in mind when it rebukes. Standing for righteousness, godliness, and faith does not expel love, patience, and meekness; standing for love, patience, and meekness does not expel righteousness, godliness, and faith.

And I was just reminded further of Jude 9, which I didn't have in mind earlier because it wasn't so directly relevant. It contains an interesting example:

[Jude 8] Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
[9] Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
[10] But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

445 posted on 05/11/2015 7:07:28 AM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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