1 Timothy 5:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 man-servant, and your maid-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 man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be 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 Grecian Jews 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 chamber. 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{TR adds "good and"} 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 like manner, 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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  • 1 Tim 5:4-11
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    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{TR adds "good and"} 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.

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

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

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

    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
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    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.

  • 1 Tim 5:1-2
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    1 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

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

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.

  • Lam 5:3
    74%

    3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Titus 2:2-5
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    2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

    3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

    4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5 to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

  • Jas 1:27
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    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 3:5
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    5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God, also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

  • Luke 21:3
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    3 He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
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    11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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

  • Exod 22:22
    69%

    22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

  • 3 John 1:5-6
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    5 Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

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

  • 1 Pet 5:1
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    1 I 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.

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

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

  • Titus 1:6
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    6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

  • Num 30:9
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    9 But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

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

  • 1 Tim 2:10
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    10 but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.

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

  • Deut 25:5
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    5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Luke 4:25
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    25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

  • Luke 18:3
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    3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

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

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

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

  • Lev 19:32
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    32 You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

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

  • Ps 68:5
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    5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

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

  • Deut 24:17
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    17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Eph 5:33
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    33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

  • 1 Tim 3:2
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    2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

  • Mark 12:43
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    43 He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

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