What does 1 Timothy chapter 5 mean? Chapter 5 begins a new section giving instructions regarding various groups. Paul provides Timothy with guidance regarding various persons within the Ephesian church. These include both older and younger people (1 Timothy 5:1–2), widows (1 Timothy 5:3–16), and elders (1 Timothy 5:17–25).

What does 1 Timothy 5:1 mean? Chapter 5 begins a new section focused on how Timothy is to treat different groups of people within the church. Verses 1 and 2 deal with men, addressing both those who are old and those who are young. Timothy is not to "rebuke" or speak harshly to older men, but to treat them as a father.

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David Guzik commentary on 1 Timothy 5, where Paul wrote to Timothy regarding how to deal with young and old, men and women, in his work as a pastor.

1. To be very tender in rebuking elders-elders in age, elders by office. Respect must be had to the dignity of their years and place, and therefore they must not be rebuked sharply nor magisterially; but Timothy himself, though an evangelist, must entreat them as fathers, for this would be the likeliest way to work upon them, and to win upon ...