I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.1 Timothy 5:21 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleI charge thee before God - The apostle would have Timothy to consider that all he did should be done as in the sight of God, the Father of the spirits of all flesh; in the sight of Christ, the Savior of sinners, who purchased the Church with his own blood; and in the sight of the most holy, approved, and eminent angels, whose office it was to minister to the heirs of salvation. The word εκλεκτοι, elect, applied to the angels here, is supposed to distinguish those who stood, when others fell from their first estate. The former were elect, or approved; the latter reprobate, or disapproved. This is not an unfrequent sense of the word εκλεκτος, elect. Perhaps there is nothing else meant than the angels that are chosen out from among others, by the Lord himself, to be ministering servants to the Church.
Without preferring one before another - Χωρις προκριματος· Without prejudice. Promote no man's cause; make not up thy mind on any case, till thou hast weighed both sides, and heard both parties, with their respective witnesses; and then act impartially, as the matter may appear to be proved. Do not treat any man, in religious matters, according to the rank he holds in life, or according to any personal attachment thou mayest have for him. Every man should be dealt with in the Church as he will be dealt with at the judgment-seat of Christ. A minister of the Gospel, who, in the exercise of discipline in the Church, is swayed and warped by secular considerations, will be a curse rather than a blessing to the people of God. Accepting the persons of the rich, in ecclesiastical matters, has been a source of corruption in Christianity. With some ministers the show of piety in a rich man goes farther than the soundest Christian experience in the poor. What account can such persons give of their stewardship?
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charge.
1 Timothy 6:13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who vivifies all things, and before Christ Jesus...
1 Thessalonians 5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
2 Timothy 2:14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit...
2 Timothy 4:1 I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
the elect.
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire...
2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness...
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation...
Revelation 12:7-9 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels...
Revelation 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation...
that.
Psalm 107:43 Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the loving kindness of the LORD.
Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yes, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and, see, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen.
without preferring. or, without prejudice.
Leviticus 19:15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty...
Deuteronomy 1:7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and to all the places near thereunto, in the plain, in the hills...
Deuteronomy 33:9 Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew his own children...
Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Luke 20:21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that you say and teach rightly, neither accept you the person of any...
Acts 15:37,38 And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark...
2 Corinthians 5:16 Why from now on know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have known Christ after the flesh...
partiality.
Malachi 2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways...
James 2:1-4 My brothers, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons...
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits...
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