1 Timothy 5:16

American Standard Version (1901)

If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

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  • 1 Tim 5:3-5 : 3 Honor widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God. 5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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  • 1 Tim 5:1-11
    11 verses
    83%

    1Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

    2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

    3Honor widows that are widows indeed.

    4But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

    5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

    6But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

    7These things also command, that they may be without reproach.

    8But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

    9Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,

    10well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints' feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.

    11But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

  • 1 Tim 5:14-15
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    14I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

    15for already some are turned aside after Satan.

  • 1 Tim 5:17
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    17Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

  • Jas 1:27
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    27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

  • Titus 2:3-5
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    3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5[ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

  • Job 31:16
    70%

    16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Titus 1:6
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    6if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

  • Jas 2:15
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    15If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
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    11Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

    12Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.

  • Luke 21:2-3
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    2And he saw a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.

    3And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than they all:

  • Deut 25:5
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    5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

  • Rom 16:2
    69%

    2that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self.

  • 3 John 1:5-6
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    5Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal;

    6who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:

  • 1 Pet 5:1-2
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    1The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

    2Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

  • 1 Cor 14:34-35
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    34let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

    35And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

  • Num 30:9
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    9But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, [even] everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.

  • 1 Cor 7:8
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    8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

  • Acts 6:1
    68%

    1Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

  • Luke 4:25
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    25But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;

  • Gal 6:10
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    10So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

  • 1 Cor 7:11-12
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    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

    12But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

  • 1 Tim 6:18
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    18that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

  • 1 Tim 3:2
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    2The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

  • Rom 15:1
    68%

    1Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • Exod 22:22
    67%

    22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

  • Job 22:9
    67%

    9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Mark 12:43
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    43And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than all they that are casting into the treasury:

  • Lam 5:3
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    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

  • 1 Cor 16:16
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    16that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one that helpeth in the work and laboreth.