1 Timothy 5:3

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Honor widows who are truly in need.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:12 : 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
  • Deut 10:18 : 18 who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.
  • Deut 14:29 : 29 Then the Levites(because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work you do.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the LORD chooses to locate his name.
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 ‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
  • Acts 6:1 : 1 The Appointment of the First Seven Deacons Now in those days, when the disciples were growing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Hebraic 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, and when he arrived they brought him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him, crying and showing him the tunics and other clothing Dorcas used to make while she was with them.
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,
  • 1 Tim 5:2 : 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters– with complete purity.
  • 1 Tim 5:4-5 : 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God. 5 But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.
  • 1 Tim 5:9-9 : 9 No widow should be put on the list unless she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband, 10 and has a reputation for good works: as one who has raised children, practiced hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in distress– as one who has exhibited all kinds of good works. 11 But do not accept younger widows on the list, because their passions may lead them away from Christ and they will desire to marry,
  • 1 Tim 5:16-17 : 16 If a believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need. 17 Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.
  • Job 29:13 : 13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy dwelling place.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.
  • Ps 146:9 : 9 The LORD protects the resident foreigner; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.
  • Jer 49:11 : 11 Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 “But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
  • Luke 7:12 : 12 As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother(who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed,“Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Tim 5:4-11
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    4But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

    5But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

    6But the one who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

    7Reinforce these commands, so that they will be beyond reproach.

    8But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

    9No widow should be put on the list unless she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband,

    10and has a reputation for good works: as one who has raised children, practiced hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in distress– as one who has exhibited all kinds of good works.

    11But do not accept younger widows on the list, because their passions may lead them away from Christ and they will desire to marry,

  • 1 Tim 5:16-17
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    16If a believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need.

    17Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.

  • 1 Tim 5:1-2
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    1Instructions about Specific Groups Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,

    2older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters– with complete purity.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

  • Lam 5:3
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    3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

  • Titus 2:2-5
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    2Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

    3Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

    4In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

  • Jas 1:27
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    27Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

  • Luke 21:3
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    3He said,“I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
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    11Likewise also their wives must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.

    12Deacons must be husbands of one wife and good managers of their children and their own households.

  • Exod 22:22
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    22“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

  • 3 John 1:5-6
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    5The Charge to Gaius Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers(even though 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
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    1Leading and Living in God’s Flock So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you:

  • Job 22:9
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    9you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • Jer 49:11
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    11Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

  • Titus 1:6
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    6An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

  • Num 30:9
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    9Vows Made by Widows“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact.

  • Deut 5:16
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    16Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

  • 1 Tim 2:10
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    10but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.

  • Job 31:16
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    16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Deut 25:5
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    5Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

  • Luke 4:25
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    25But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

  • Luke 18:3
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    3There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying,‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

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

  • Eph 6:2-3
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    2“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

    3“that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”

  • Lev 19:32
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    32You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

  • Eph 5:22
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    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

  • Ps 68:5
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    5He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy dwelling place.

  • 1 Pet 3:3
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    3Let your beauty not be external– the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes–

  • Deut 24:17
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    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Eph 5:33
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    33Nevertheless, 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 a cruel person,

  • 1 Tim 3:2
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    2The overseer then must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8Suffering for Doing Good Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.

  • Mark 12:43
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    43He called his disciples and said to them,“I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the offering box than all the others.