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

the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all pureness.

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus have ye made, that the commandment of God is without effect, through your traditions.

neither sought we praise of men, neither of you, nor yet of any other, when we might have been chargeable, as the apostles of Christ.

See that ye honour all men. Love brotherly fellowship, fear God, and honour the King.

Likewise, ye men, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as unto them that are heirs also of the grace of life, that your prayers be not let.

Widows

Let no widow be chosen under sixty years old, and such a one as was the wife of one man,

but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

and the Levite shall come because he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy city, and shall eat and fill themselves: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the works of thine hand which thou doest.

And rejoice before the LORD thy God: both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there.

"'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, fatherless and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me.

"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?

He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.

The LORD careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow. As for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.

Thou shalt leave thy fatherless children behind thee, and I will keep them, and thy widows shall take their comfort in me.

Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, for ye devour widows' houses: and that, under a colour of praying long prayers, wherefore ye shall receive greater damnation.

When he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, which was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and much people of the city was with her.

In those days, as the number of the disciples grew, there arose a grudge among the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were despised in the daily ministration.

Peter arose and came with them: And when he was come, they brought him into the chamber, and all the widows stood round about him weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

Indeed

If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

And she had been a widow about four score and four years of age, which went never out of the temple, but served God there with fasting and prayer night and day.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold a right Israelite, in whom is no guile."