1 Timothy 5:3

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Honor widows who are truly widows.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Deut 10:18 : 18 He ensures justice for the fatherless and the widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
  • Deut 14:29 : 29 Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance with you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 Rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite in your towns, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow living among you, in the place the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 Be joyful at your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who live in your towns.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed is anyone who denies justice to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Acts 6:1 : 1 During these days, as the disciples were increasing in number, there was a complaint by the Greek-speaking Jews against the Hebrew-speaking Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him to the upstairs room. All the widows stood around him weeping and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them.
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 We did not seek glory from people, neither from you nor from others.
  • 1 Tim 5:2 : 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.
  • 1 Tim 5:4-5 : 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show respect within their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. 5 The widow who is truly alone and desolate has placed her hope in God and continues in prayers and petitions night and day.
  • 1 Tim 5:9-9 : 9 A widow should be enrolled only if she is at least sixty years old and has been faithful to one husband, 10 and is well known for her good works: if she has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in affliction, and devoted herself to every good work. 11 But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their physical desires draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry,
  • 1 Tim 5:16-17 : 16 If any believing man or woman has widows, let them help them and not let the church be burdened, so that it may assist those who are truly widows. 17 The elders who lead well should be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker vessel, showing them honor as co-heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of the one about to perish came upon me, and I made the widow's heart sing for joy.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 Sing to God, sing praises to His name; prepare the way for Him who rides through the deserts—His name is Yah, and rejoice before Him.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
  • Ps 146:9 : 9 The LORD protects the sojourners; he sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the way of the wicked.
  • Jer 49:11 : 11 Leave your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in me.
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.
  • Luke 7:12 : 12 As Jesus approached the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town was with her.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, 'Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Tim 5:4-11
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    83%

    4But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show respect within their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

    5The widow who is truly alone and desolate has placed her hope in God and continues in prayers and petitions night and day.

    6But the one who lives indulgently, even while living, is dead.

    7Command these things so that they may be above reproach.

    8If anyone does not provide for their own, and especially for their own household, they have denied the faith and are worse than an unbeliever.

    9A widow should be enrolled only if she is at least sixty years old and has been faithful to one husband,

    10and is well known for her good works: if she has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in affliction, and devoted herself to every good work.

    11But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their physical desires draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry,

  • 1 Tim 5:16-17
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    16If any believing man or woman has widows, let them help them and not let the church be burdened, so that it may assist those who are truly widows.

    17The elders who lead well should be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

  • 1 Tim 5:1-2
    2 verses
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    1Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but appeal to him as you would to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,

    2older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
    76%

    14Therefore, I desire that younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

  • Lam 5:3
    74%

    3We have become orphans, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

  • Titus 2:2-5
    4 verses
    72%

    2Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance.

    3Likewise, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good things.

    4They are to encourage the young women to love their husbands and children,

    5to be self-controlled, pure, committed to their homes, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be slandered.

  • Jas 1:27
    72%

    27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    71%

    5For in this way, in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, submitting to their own husbands.

  • Luke 21:3
    70%

    3He said, 'Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.'

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded and faithful in all things.

    12Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their households well.

  • Exod 22:22
    69%

    22If you do afflict them and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

  • 3 John 1:5-6
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    5Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you do for the brothers, especially when they are strangers.

    6They have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

  • 1 Pet 5:1
    69%

    1I urge the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ's sufferings, and also as one who will share in the glory to be revealed.

  • Job 22:9
    68%

    9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

  • Jer 49:11
    68%

    11Leave your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in me.

  • Titus 1:6
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    6An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who are not accused of wild living or rebellion.

  • Num 30:9
    68%

    9But if her husband voids them when he hears about them, nothing she has vowed or promised by binding obligation will stand; the LORD will forgive her.

  • Deut 5:16
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    16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • 1 Tim 2:10
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    10but with good works, which are appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

  • Job 31:16
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    16If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Deut 25:5
    67%

    5If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

  • Luke 4:25
    67%

    25But I tell you the truth, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.

  • Luke 18:3
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    3And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

  • 1 Cor 7:8
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    8To the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to remain as I am.

  • Eph 6:2-3
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    2"Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise),

    3so that it may go well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

  • Lev 19:32
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    32Stand up in the presence of the elderly, show respect for the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

  • Eph 5:22
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    22Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

  • Ps 68:5
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    5Sing to God, sing praises to His name; prepare the way for Him who rides through the deserts—His name is Yah, and rejoice before Him.

  • 1 Pet 3:3
    66%

    3Let your beauty not be external—such as elaborate hairstyles, the wearing of gold jewelry, or fine clothes.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.

  • Eph 5:33
    66%

    33However, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

  • Prov 5:9
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    9Lest you give your vigor to others, and your years to someone cruel;

  • 1 Tim 3:2
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    2Therefore, an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another as brothers and sisters, be tenderhearted and humble.

  • Mark 12:43
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    43Summoning his disciples, he said to them, 'Truly I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box.