1 Timothy 5:3

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Summary

1 Timothy 5:3

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

Honour

Widows

Indeed

1 Timothy 5:4

Luke 2:37

John 1:47

Bible References

Honour

To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

Widows

Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.

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Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.

And Peter went with them. And when he had come, they took him into the room: and all the widows were there, weeping and putting before him the coats and clothing which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

Indeed

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.