Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

New American Standard Bible

Honor widows who are widows indeed;

King James Version

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

Holman Bible

Support widows who are genuinely widows.

International Standard Version

Honor widows who have no other family members to care for them.

A Conservative Version

Support widows, the real widows.

American Standard Version

Honor widows that are widows indeed.

Amplified

Honor and help those widows who are truly widowed [alone, and without support].

An Understandable Version

Show consideration for true widows [i.e., those destitute of family members to care for them].

Anderson New Testament

Honor widows that are widows indeed.

Bible in Basic English

Give honour to widows who are truly widows.

Common New Testament

Honor widows who are real widows.

Daniel Mace New Testament

show regard to widows that are really such.

Darby Translation

Honour widows who are really widows;

Godbey New Testament

Honor widows who are truly widows.

Goodspeed New Testament

Look after widows who are really dependent.

John Wesley New Testament

Honour widows that are widows indeed. But if any widow have children or grand children, let these learn first to shew piety at home,

Julia Smith Translation

Honour widows, truly widows.

King James 2000

Honor widows that are widows indeed.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Honor widows [who are] truly widows.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Honour widows which are true widows.

Moffatt New Testament

Widows who really need it must be supported from the funds.

Montgomery New Testament

Ever honor widows who are really widows;

NET Bible

Honor widows who are truly in need.

New Heart English Bible

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Noyes New Testament

Honor as widows those that are widows indeed.

Sawyer New Testament

Support the widows who are widows indeed.

The Emphasized Bible

Widows, honour thou - who indeed are widows: -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Honour the widows, that are widows indeed.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Show consideration for widows--I mean those who are really widowed.

Webster

Honor widows that are widows indeed.

Weymouth New Testament

Honour widows who are really in need.

Williams New Testament

Always care for widows who are really dependent.

World English Bible

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Worrell New Testament

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Worsley New Testament

Honour widows who are widows indeed.

Youngs Literal Translation

honour widows who are really widows;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
τιμάω 
Timao 
Usage: 7

χήρα 
Chera 
χήρα 
Chera 
Usage: 18
Usage: 18

ὄντως 
Ontos 
Usage: 9

References

American

Fausets

Images 1 Timothy 5:3

Prayers for 1 Timothy 5:3

Context Readings

Instructions About Widows

2 older women as mothers, the younger as sisters in all purity. 3 Honor widows who are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

Cross References

Acts 6:1

And in those days, the disciples having multiplied, a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews occurred, because their widows were overlooked in the daily serving.

Acts 9:39

And rising up, Peter went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. And all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger in giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 14:29

And the Levite, because he has no part nor inheritance with you, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are inside your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Deuteronomy 16:11

And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your slave girl, and the Levite inside your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, those among you, in the place which Jehovah your God has chosen to place His name there.

Deuteronomy 16:14

And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your slave-girl, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow inside your gates.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed is he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Job 29:13

The blessing of the perishing came on me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing.

Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Psalm 68:5

In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.

Psalm 94:6

They kill the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Psalm 146:9

Jehovah preserves the strangers; He relieves the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in Me.

Matthew 15:6

and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you voided the commandment of God by your tradition.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

Luke 2:37

And she was a widow of eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, serving God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Luke 7:12

And drawing near the gate of the city, even behold, one having died was being carried out, an only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a considerable crowd of the city was with her.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him and said of him, Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile!

1 Thessalonians 2:6

Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be so with heaviness, as apostles of Christ.

1 Timothy 5:2

older women as mothers, the younger as sisters in all purity.

1 Timothy 5:4-5

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

1 Timothy 5:9-11

Do not let a widow be enrolled having become less than sixty years old, the wife of one man,

1 Timothy 5:16-17

If any believing man or believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be charged, so that it may relieve those who are widows indeed.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

1 Peter 2:17

Honor all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly being co-heirs together of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.

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