1 Timothy 5:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If any woman of the faith has relations who are widows, let her give them help, so that the care of them does not come on the church, and so it may give help to those who are truly widowed.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 5:3-5 : 3 Give honour to widows who are truly widows. 4 But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God. 5 Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

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    1Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:

    2To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.

    3Give honour to widows who are truly widows.

    4But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

    5Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.

    6But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.

    7Give orders to this effect, so that no evil may be said of anyone.

    8If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

    9Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

    10And if witness is given of her good works; if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.

    11But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;

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    14So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

    15For even now some are turned away to Satan.

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    17Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.

  • Jas 1:27
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    27The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

  • Titus 2:3-5
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    71%

    3That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,

    4Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

    5To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

  • Job 31:16
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    16If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

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    6Men having a good record, husbands of one wife, whose children are of the faith, children of whom it may not be said that they are given to loose living or are uncontrolled.

  • Jas 2:15
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    15If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,

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    2And he saw a certain poor widow putting in a farthing.

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  • Deut 25:5
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    5If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

  • Rom 16:2
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    2That you will take her in kindly, after the way of the saints, as one who is the Lord's, and give her help in anything in which she may have need of you: because she has been a help to a great number and to myself.

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    5My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;

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    34Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

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    9But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

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    1We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

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    22Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

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