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

¹¹ Command this and teach this. ¹² Let no one think slightingly of you because you are a young man; but in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, be an example for your fellow Christians to imitate. ¹³ Till I come, bestow your attention on reading, exhortation and teaching. ¹⁴ Do not be careless about the gifts with which you are endowed, which were conferred on you through a divine revelation when the hands of the elders were placed upon you. ¹⁵ Habitually practise these duties, and be absorbed in them; so that your growing proficiency in them may be evident to all. ¹⁶ Be on your guard as to yourself and your teaching. Persevere in these things; for by doing this you will make certain your own salvation and that of your hearers.

¹ Never administer a sharp reprimand to a man older than yourself; but entreat him as if he were your father, and the younger men as brothers; ² the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.