Paul continues instructing Timothy how to behave himself within the church of holy-people:
I Timothy 5:1 and 2:
5:1Let you not be quick-to-stroke-upon an elder but you must encourage (him) as a father, younger-men as brothers, .2elder-women as mothers, younger-women as sisters, in all purity.
Let it not be that you would be ready to stroke upon an elder(hit with strikes or stripes, smite with blows or words onto a man who is older in age than you)…. This is a polite command or a very strong suggestion advising Timothy regarding this subject. An “elder” man or woman in this context is referring to those who are older in age than Timothy. Older men and women should have knowledge, wisdom, dignity, etc, relative to God and the things of God. They should be elders in service to/for God and the Lord Jesus Christ, but of course here Paul is talking about those who are not behaving correctly and so he instructs Timothy how to approach them if/when the need arises.
Let you not be quick to stroke upon an elder, but on the contrary, you must encourage an elder man as a father (exhort him in an appropriately respectful manner as though he were your father), you must encourage the younger men as brothers, you must encourage the elder women as mothers, you must encourage the younger women as sisters, in all purity (within the sphere of action of all/every pureness, within a pure state, not being contaminated from God's viewpoint by any bad-thing that may be near-by in the physical flesh category as you move among people; continue in the state of being pure while you are doing this). Encourage them as though they were members of your own immediate biological family, not being detached from them as though they were strangers.
[Reference: Genesis 18:11; Leviticus 19:32; Joshua 13:1; Matthew 15:4-6; Acts 20:17; Ephesians 6:2 and 3; Hebrews 11:2; I Peter 5:1.]
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True Bible Study - First and Second Timothy and Titus
