1 Timothy 5:22
“Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither bee partaker of other mens sinnes. Keepe thy selfe pure.”
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1 Timothy 5:22 Context
20Them that sinne rebuke before all, that others also may feare. 21I charge thee before God, and the Lord Iesus Christ, and the elect Angels, that thou obserue these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partialitie. 22Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither bee partaker of other mens sinnes. Keepe thy selfe pure. 23Drinke no longer water, but vse a little wine for thy stomackes sake, and thine often infirmities. 24Some mens sinnes are open before hand, going before to iudgement: and some men they follow after.
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Other Translations for 1 Timothy 5:22
Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
- King James Version
Do not lay hands upon anyone {too} hastily and thereby share {responsibility for} the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.
- Basic English Bible
Lay hands quickly on no man, nor partake in others' sins. Keep thyself pure.
- Darby Bible
Impose hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
- Webster's Bible
Do not ordain any one hastily; and do not be a partaker in the sins of others; keep *yourself* pure.
- Weymouth Bible
Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.
- World English Bible
Put thou hondis to no man, nether anoon comyne thou with othere mennus synnes. Kepe thi silf chast.
- Wycliffe Bible
Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Timothy 5:22
5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man - That is, appoint no man to church offices without full trial and examination; else thou wilt be accessary to, and accountable for, his misbehaviour in his office. Keep thy self pure - From the blood of all men.
People's Bible Notes for 1 Timothy 5:22
1Ti 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man. The meaning is that no man must be ordained to office until his fitness is surely known. ``All the old commentators, and the great majority of modern ones, applies this to ordination.'' Neither be partaker of other men's sins. He who appoints an unfit man to office becomes in a certain sense responsible for that man's sins. Keep thyself pure. Free from the sins of other men.