1 Timothy 5:20
New International Version
But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning.

New Living Translation
Those who sin should be reprimanded in front of the whole church; this will serve as a strong warning to others.

English Standard Version
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.

Berean Standard Bible
But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.

Berean Literal Bible
But those sinning, rebuke before all, so that the rest might have fear as well.

King James Bible
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

New King James Version
Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.

New American Standard Bible
Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.

NASB 1995
Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.

NASB 1977
Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also may be fearful of sinning.

Legacy Standard Bible
Those who continue in sin, reprove in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful.

Amplified Bible
As for those [elders] who continue in sin, reprimand them in the presence of all [the congregation], so that the rest will be warned.

Christian Standard Bible
Publicly rebuke those who sin, so that the rest will be afraid.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Publicly rebuke those who sin, so that the rest will also be afraid.

American Standard Version
Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Those who sin, rebuke before everyone, so that the rest of the people may fear.

Contemporary English Version
But if any of the leaders should keep on sinning, they must be corrected in front of the whole group, as a warning to everyone else.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Them that sin reprove before all: that the rest also may have fear.

English Revised Version
Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Reprimand those leaders who sin. Do it in front of everyone so that the other leaders will also be afraid.

Good News Translation
Rebuke publicly all those who commit sins, so that the rest may be afraid.

International Standard Version
As for those who keep on sinning, rebuke them in front of everyone so that the rest will also be afraid.

Literal Standard Version
Reprove those sinning before all, that the others may also have fear;

Majority Standard Bible
Those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.

New American Bible
Reprimand publicly those who do sin, so that the rest also will be afraid.

NET Bible
Those guilty of sin must be rebuked before all, as a warning to the rest.

New Revised Standard Version
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest also may stand in fear.

New Heart English Bible
Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Webster's Bible Translation
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

Weymouth New Testament
Those who persist in sin reprove in the presence of all, so that it may also be a warning to the rest.

World English Bible
Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Young's Literal Translation
Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

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Context
Honoring Elders
19Do not entertain an accusation against an elder, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 20But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin. 21I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality.…

Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:11
Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

Galatians 2:14
When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, "If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.

Titus 1:13
This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith

Titus 2:15
Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.


Treasury of Scripture

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

rebuke.

Leviticus 19:17
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

Galatians 2:11-14
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed…

2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

that others.

1 Timothy 1:20
Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Deuteronomy 13:11
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

Deuteronomy 17:13
And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

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1 Timothy 5
1. Rules to be observed in reproving.
3. Of widows.
17. Of elders.
23. A precept for Timothy's health.
24. Some men's sins go before unto judgment, and some men's follow after.














(20) Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.--The Apostle here, apparently, is still referring exclusively to that order of presbyters whose more meritorious members he had directed Timothy to honour with a special honour, and towards whose accused members he instructed him how to act. He now passes to the question how to deal with these responsible officers of the Church when they were proved to be notoriously sinning. While, on the one hand, the earnest and devoted men were to be honoured with "a double honour"--while every possible legal precaution was to be taken in the case of those being accused--on the other hand, when proved to be men continuing in sin and error, their punishment must be as marked as in the other case was the reward. The errors and sins of teachers of the faith are far more dangerous than in those who make up the rank and file of congregations, and require a more severe and more public punishment.

It is not improbable that St. Paul was especially alluding here to false teaching--to errors of doctrine on the part of some of the Ephesian presbyters. He seems, in his parting address at Miletus to the elders (presbyters) of this very Ephesian Church, to have foreseen such a grievous falling away in the future among their company--"Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them" (Acts 20:30). Compare also the Epistle to this same Church of Ephesus (Revelation 2:4-5). As the sin, whatever has been its nature, has been committed by men intrusted with a responsible and public charge, so the rebuke and punishment must also be in public, that the warning may then spread over the whole of the various congregations composing the Church, and thus "others also may fear."

Verse 20. - Reprove for rebuke, A.V.; in the sight of for before, A.V.; the rest for others, A.V.; be in fear for fear, A.V. Reprove; ἔλεγχε, not ἐπιπλήξῃς, as in ver. 1 (see Matthew 18:15). There, the fault being a private one, the reproof is to be administered in private. But in the case of the sinning presbyter, which is that here intended, Timothy is to reprove the offender "before all," that others also may fear, and may be deterred by their fear from committing a like offence.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

those who
Τοὺς (Tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

persist in sin
ἁμαρτάνοντας (hamartanontas)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 264: Perhaps from a and the base of meros; properly, to miss the mark, i.e. to err, especially to sin.

should be rebuked
ἔλεγχε (elenche)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 1651: (a) I reprove, rebuke, discipline, (b) I expose, show to be guilty. Of uncertain affinity; to confute, admonish.

in front of
ἐνώπιον (enōpion)
Preposition
Strong's 1799: Neuter of a compound of en and a derivative of optanomai; in the face of.

everyone,
πάντων (pantōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

so that
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

others
λοιποὶ (loipoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3062: Left, left behind, the remainder, the rest, the others. Masculine plural of a derivative of leipo; remaining ones.

will
ἔχωσιν (echōsin)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

stand in fear [of sin].
φόβον (phobon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5401: (a) fear, terror, alarm, (b) the object or cause of fear, (c) reverence, respect. From a primary phebomai; alarm or fright.


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