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1 Timothy 5

1 Tim. 5:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Lay
epitithemi (Greek #2007)
to impose (in a friendly or hostile sense)
KJV usage: add unto, lade, lay upon, put (up) on, set on (up), + surname, X wound.
Pronounce: ep-ee-tith'-ay-mee
Origin: from 1909 and 5087
hands
cheir (Greek #5495)
the hand (literally or figuratively (power); especially (by Hebraism) a means or instrument)
KJV usage: hand.
Pronounce: khire
Origin: perhaps from the base of 5494 in the sense of its congener the base of 5490 (through the idea of hollowness for grasping)
m suddenly
tacheos (Greek #5030)
briefly, i.e. (in time) speedily, or (in manner) rapidly
KJV usage: hastily, quickly, shortly, soon, suddenly.
Pronounce: takh-eh'-oce
Origin: adverb from 5036
on
epitithemi (Greek #2007)
to impose (in a friendly or hostile sense)
KJV usage: add unto, lade, lay upon, put (up) on, set on (up), + surname, X wound.
Pronounce: ep-ee-tith'-ay-mee
Origin: from 1909 and 5087
no man
medeis (Greek #3367)
not even one (man, woman, thing)
KJV usage: any (man, thing), no (man), none, not (at all, any man, a whit), nothing, + without delay.
Pronounce: may-dice'
Origin: μηδεμία (may-dem-ee'-ah), and the neuter μηδέν (may-den') from 3361 and 1520
, neither
mede (Greek #3366)
but not, not even; in a continued negation, nor
KJV usage: neither, nor (yet), (no) not (once, so much as).
Pronounce: may-deh'
Origin: from 3361 and 1161
be partakern of
koinoneo (Greek #2841)
to share with others (objectively or subjectively)
KJV usage: communicate, distribute, be partaker.
Pronounce: koy-no-neh'-o
Origin: from 2844
other men’s
allotrios (Greek #245)
another's, i.e. not one's own; by extension foreign, not akin, hostile
KJV usage: alien, (an-)other (man's, men's), strange(-r).
Pronounce: al-lot'-ree-os
Origin: from 243
sins
hamartia (Greek #266)
a sin (properly abstract)
KJV usage: offence, sin(-ful).
Pronounce: ham-ar-tee'-ah
Origin: from 264
: keep
tereo (Greek #5083)
to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from 5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from 2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried)
KJV usage: hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.
Pronounce: tay-reh'-o
Origin: from τερός (a watch; perhaps akin to 2334)
thyself
seautou (Greek #4572)
also dative case of the same, σεαυτῷ (seh-ow-to'), and accusative case σεαυτόν (seh-ow-ton'), likewise contracted σαυτοῦ (sow-too'), σαυτῷ (sow-to'), and σαυτόν (sow-ton'), respectively of (with, to) thyself
KJV usage: thee, thine own self, (thou) thy(-self).
Pronounce: seh-ow-too'
pure
hagnos (Greek #53)
properly, clean, i.e. (figuratively) innocent, modest, perfect
KJV usage: chaste, clean, pure.
Pronounce: hag-nos'
Origin: from the same as 40
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Acts 13:3• 3Then, having fasted and prayed, and having laid their hands on them, they let them go. (Acts 13:3)
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2 John 11• 11for he who greets him partakes in his wicked works. (2 John 11)

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Laying on of Hands,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1 Tim. 4:14• 14Be not negligent of the gift that is in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood. (1 Tim. 4:14)
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Acts 6:6• 6whom they set before the apostles; and, having prayed, they laid their hands on them. (Acts 6:6)
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Acts 13:3• 3Then, having fasted and prayed, and having laid their hands on them, they let them go. (Acts 13:3)
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2 Tim. 1:6• 6For which cause I put thee in mind to rekindle the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. (2 Tim. 1:6)
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Heb. 6:2• 2of the doctrine of washings, and of imposition of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment; (Heb. 6:2)
suddenly.
1 Tim. 3:6,10• 6not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.
 10And let these be first proved, then let them minister, being without charge against them. (1 Tim. 3:6,10)
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Josh. 9:14• 14And the men took of their victuals, but they did not inquire at the mouth of Jehovah. (Josh. 9:14)
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2 Tim. 2:2• 2And the things thou hast heard of me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, such as shall be competent to instruct others also. (2 Tim. 2:2)
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Titus 1:5‑9• 5For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained unordered, and establish elders in each city, as *I* had ordered thee:
 6if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.
 7For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;
 8but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,
 9clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers. (Titus 1:5‑9)
neither.
Eph. 5:11• 11and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them, (Eph. 5:11)
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2 John 11• 11for he who greets him partakes in his wicked works. (2 John 11)
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Rev. 18:4• 4And I heard another voice out of the heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye have not fellowship in her sins, and that ye do not receive of her plagues: (Rev. 18:4)
keep.
1 Tim. 4:12• 12Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. (1 Tim. 4:12)
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Acts 18:6• 6But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: *I* am pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations. (Acts 18:6)
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Acts 20:26• 26Wherefore I witness to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all, (Acts 20:26)
• the injunction has no special, if indeed any, link with elders, but was meant to warn Timothy against haste in all such acts. (“On 1 Timothy 5:19-25” by W. Kelly)
• The purity required emphatically in himself would the better help to guard against looseness in sanctioning formally men who would make sad havoc of the flock of God or dishonor the Master by forsaking the work through love of the present age, if they did not fall into gross sins or bring in privily heresies of perdition. (“On 1 Timothy 5:19-25” by W. Kelly)
• Timothy was to be careful not to give, by the laying on of hands, his sanction to anyone who did not offer moral guarantees that, in the position he had taken, he deserved this mark of respect from others. (“1 Timothy 5” by J.N. Darby)
• In Scripture to lay hands on another is the sign of fellowship rather than the communication of authority as Christendom teaches. (“Warnings Against Worldliness and Instruction in Piety: 1 Timothy 5” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Lay hands quickly on no man, nor partake in others’ sins. Keep thyself pure.

W. Kelly Translation

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Lay hands quickly on no one, neither be a partaker in others’ sins; keep thyself pure.