translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Or “Do not speak harshly to an older man.”


text: No verb “speak” is stated in this clause, but it continues the sense of the preceding.


text: Grk “the real widows,” “those who are really widows.”


text: Or “to practice their religion.”


text: Or “and so make some repayment to their parents”; Grk “and to give back recompense to their parents.”


text: Grk “for this is pleasing in the sight of God.”


text: Or “left all alone.”


text: For “is dead even” the Greek text reads “has died.”


text: Here καί ( kai ) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.


text: Grk “and command these things.”


text: That is, “his own relatives.”


text: Grk “let a widow be enrolled if she has reached not less than sixty years.”


text: Or “a woman married only once,” “was devoted solely to her husband” (see the note on “wife” in 1 Tim 3:2 ; also 1 Tim 3:12 ; Titus 1:6 ).


text: Grk “if she raised children.” The phrase “if she raised children” begins a series of conditional clauses running to the end of the verse. These provide specific examples of her good works (v. 10 a).


text: Grk “followed after every good work.”


text: Grk “refuse younger widows.”


text: With a single verb and object, this clause means “pursue sensuous desires in opposition to Christ.”


text: Grk “incurring judgment because they reject their first faith.” sn The pledge refers most likely to a vow not to remarry undertaken when a widow is put on the list (cf. 1 Tim 5:9 ).


text: L&N 15.23 suggests the meaning, “to move about from place to place, with significant changes in direction – ‘to travel about, to wander about.’”


text: Or “idle.” The whole clause (“going around from house to house, they learn to be lazy”) reverses the order of the Greek. The present participle περιερχόμεναι ( periercomenai ) may be taken as temporal (“ while going around”), instrumental (“ by going around”) or result (“ with the result that they go around”).


text: Grk “saying the things that are unnecessary.” Or perhaps “talking about things that are none of their business.”


text: Grk “for the sake of reviling.”


text: Grk “wandered away after Satan.”


label: NET textual note

text: Most witnesses (D Ψ Ï sy) have πιστὸς ἤ ( pisto" h ) before πιστή ( pisth ), with the resultant meaning “if a believing man or woman.” But such looks to be a motivated reading, perhaps to bring some parity to the responsibilities of men and women listed here, and as a way of harmonizing with v. 4 . Further, most of the earliest and best witnesses ( א A C F G P 048 33 81 1175 1739 1881 co) lack the πιστὸς ἤ , strengthening the preference for the shorter reading.


text: Grk “has widows.”


text: Grk “who lead well.”


text: Or “deserving.”


text: Like the similar use of “honor” in v. 3 , this phrase denotes both respect and remuneration: “honor plus honorarium.”


text: Or “in preaching”; Grk “in word.”


text: Or “censured.” The Greek word implies exposing someone’s sin in order to bring correction.


text: “Before all” probably refers to the whole congregation, not just all the elders; “the rest” is more likely to denote the remaining elders.


text: Grk “that the rest may have fear.”


text: Grk “doing nothing according to partiality.”


text: In context “laying hands on anyone” refers to ordination or official installation of someone as an elder.


text: Grk “and do not share in the sins of others.”


text: Grk “for the sake of your stomach.”


text: Grk “they [the sins] follow after others.”