1 Timothy 5:3

American Standard Version (1901)

Honor widows that are widows indeed.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
  • Deut 10:18 : 18 He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
  • Deut 14:29 : 29 and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be he that wresteth the justice [due] to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Acts 6:1 : 1 Now 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.
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
  • 1 Tim 5:2 : 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
  • 1 Tim 5:4-5 : 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 5:9-9 : 9 Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man, 10 well 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. 11 But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
  • 1 Tim 5:16-17 : 16 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. 17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure 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.
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.
  • Ps 146:9 : 9 Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
  • Jer 49:11 : 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. [
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.
  • Luke 7:12 : 12 Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, there was carried out one that was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

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  • 1 Tim 5:4-11
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    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 5:16-17
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    16If 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.

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

  • 1 Tim 5:1-2
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    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.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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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:

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

  • Titus 2:2-5
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    2that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

    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:

  • 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.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

  • Luke 21:3
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    3And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than they all:

  • 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.

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

  • 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
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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:

  • Job 22:9
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    9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Jer 49:11
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    11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

  • 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.

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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.

  • Deut 5:16
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    16Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

  • 1 Tim 2:10
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    10but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.

  • Job 31:16
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    16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • 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.

  • 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;

  • Luke 18:3
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    3and there was a widow in that city; and she came oft unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

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

  • Eph 6:2-3
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    2Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

    3that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

  • Lev 19:32
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    32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

  • Eph 5:22
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    22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

  • Ps 68:5
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    5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

  • 1 Pet 3:3
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    3Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

  • Deut 24:17
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    17Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge;

  • Eph 5:33
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    33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

  • Prov 5:9
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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;

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

  • 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: