1 Timothy 5:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Honor widows who are truly widows.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Deut 10:18 : 18 He executes the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
  • Deut 14:29 : 29 And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place His name there.
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Acts 6:1 : 1 In those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a complaint by the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
  • 1 Tim 5:2 : 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
  • 1 Tim 5:4-5 : 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents, for this is good and acceptable before God. 5 Now she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
  • 1 Tim 5:9-9 : 9 Do not let a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, 10 Well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work. 11 But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
  • 1 Tim 5:16-17 : 16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, so that it may relieve those who are truly widows. 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 In the same way, you husbands, live with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of a dying man 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 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 stranger, and murder the fatherless.
  • Ps 146:9 : 9 The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
  • Jer 49:11 : 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 And she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
  • Luke 7:12 : 12 Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and a large crowd of the city was with her.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!

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  • 1 Tim 5:4-11
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    83%

    4But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents, for this is good and acceptable before God.

    5Now she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

    6But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

    7And these things command, that they may be blameless.

    8But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

    9Do not let a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

    10Well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

    11But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

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

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

  • 1 Tim 5:1-2
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    1Do not rebuke an elder, but appeal to him as a father; and the younger men as brothers;

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

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14Therefore I desire that the younger women marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

  • Lam 5:3
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    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

  • Titus 2:2-5
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    2That the older men be sober, dignified, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

    3The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine, teachers of good things;

    4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

  • Jas 1:27
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    27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands:

  • Luke 21:3
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    3And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all of them:

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
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    11In the same way, their wives must be dignified, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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

  • Exod 22:22
    69%

    22You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

  • 3 John 1:5-6
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    5Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers;

    6They have borne witness of your charity before the church: whom if you bring forward on their journey in a godly manner, you will do well:

  • 1 Pet 5:1
    69%

    1The elders among you I exhort, who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

  • Job 22:9
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    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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

  • Titus 1:6
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    6If anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.

  • Num 30:9
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    9But every vow of a widow, and of her who is divorced, by which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

  • Deut 5:16
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    16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • 1 Tim 2:10
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    10But what is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.

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

  • Deut 25:5
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    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Luke 4:25
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    25But I tell you the truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine swept throughout all the land;

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

  • 1 Cor 7:8
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    8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

  • Eph 6:2-3
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    2Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise;

    3That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

  • Lev 19:32
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    32You shall rise before the gray-headed, and honor the face of the old man, 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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    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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    3Let your beauty not be the outward adornment of braiding hair, wearing gold, or putting on apparel;

  • Deut 24:17
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    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Eph 5:33
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    33Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • Prov 5:9
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    9Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

  • 1 Tim 3:2
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    2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;

  • Mark 12:43
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    43So he called his disciples to him and said to them, 'Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;