1 Timothy 4:11-1 Timothy 5:2 - Instructions For Ministry

¹¹ Keep preaching and teaching these things. ¹² Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Be applying yourself until I come to public reading, preaching, and teaching. ¹⁴ Never neglect the gift within you, which was given in fulfilment of prophecy at the time of the laying on of hands by the elders. ¹⁵ Let these things be your care, give yourself wholly to them, so that your progress may be manifest to all. ¹⁶ Give heed to yourself and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

¹ Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers, ² the older women as mothers, the younger women as sisters in all purity.