1 Timothy 5:3

World English Bible (2000)

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Deut 10:18 : 18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
  • Deut 14:29 : 29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Acts 6:1 : 1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
  • 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 nor seeking glory from 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 has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God. 5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
  • 1 Tim 5:9-9 : 9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, 10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work. 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown 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 don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed. 17 Let the elders who 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 unstained by the world.
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
  • Job 29:13 : 13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on 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 defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
  • Ps 146:9 : 9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds 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 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
  • Luke 7:12 : 12 Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"

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    4But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

    5Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

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

    7Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.

    8But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

    9Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

    10being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

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

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    16If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

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

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

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    14I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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    3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, 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,

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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 unstained by the world.

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    5For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

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    3He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

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    6They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

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    1I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

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

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

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  • Lev 19:32
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    3Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

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    17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

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    33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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