Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.

New American Standard Bible

Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

King James Version

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Holman Bible

The real widow, left all alone, has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;

International Standard Version

A woman who has no other family members to care for her and who is left all alone has placed her hope in God and devotes herself to petitions and prayers night and day.

A Conservative Version

But the real widow, and made alone, has hoped in God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

American Standard Version

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Amplified

Now a woman who is really a widow and has been left [entirely] alone [without adequate income] trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

An Understandable Version

Now the woman who is a true widow, and living all alone, has placed her hope in God and continues [to offer] special requests and prayers [for help ?] night and day.

Anderson New Testament

But she that is a widow indeed, and left alone, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

Common New Testament

Now she who is a real widow, and who has been left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

Daniel Mace New Testament

as for the widow, who is really such, and without any assistance, let her place all her hopes in God, and be assiduous in supplication and prayer.

Darby Translation

Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

Godbey New Testament

She who is truly a widow, and left alone, hopes in God, and abides in prayers and supplication night and day;

Goodspeed New Testament

But a woman who is really a widow, and has no children, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to prayers and entreaties night and day.

John Wesley New Testament

Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate, trusteth in God and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Julia Smith Translation

And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day.

King James 2000

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But the widow [who is one] truly, and is left alone, has put her hope in God and continues in her petitions and prayers night and day.

Modern King James verseion

But she being really a widow, and having been left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

She that is a very widow, and friendless, putteth her trust in God, and continueth in supplication and prayer night and day:

Moffatt New Testament

The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications;

Montgomery New Testament

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to supplications and prayers, day and night.

NET Bible

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

Now she that is a widow indeed, and left alone, hath set her hope on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day;

Sawyer New Testament

But one that is a widow indeed and alone hopes in God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day;

The Emphasized Bible

But, she who is indeed a widow, and is left alone, hath turned her hope towards God, and is giving attendance unto the supplications and the prayers, night and day, -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

But she who is a widow indeed, and abandoned to solitude, hopeth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Twentieth Century New Testament

As for the woman who is really widowed and left quite alone, her hopes are fixed on God, and she devotes herself to prayers and supplications night and day.

Webster

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Weymouth New Testament

A widow who is really in need, friendless and desolate, has her hopes fixed on God, and continues at her supplications and prayers, night and day;

Williams New Testament

But a woman who is really a widow and lives alone has fixed her hope on God, and night and day devotes herself to prayers and entreaties,

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

Now she that is really a widow, and left alone, has set her hope on God, and continues in supplications and prayers, night and day.

Worsley New Testament

Now she, that is really a widow and desolate, hopeth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Youngs Literal Translation

And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Now
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184


which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

is
ὄντως 
Ontos 
Usage: 9

a widow
χήρα 
Chera 
Usage: 18

ὄντως 
Ontos 
Usage: 9

and







and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

μονόω 
Monoo 
Usage: 1

ἐλπίζω 
Elpizo 
Usage: 29

in
ἐπί 
Epi 
on, in, upon, unto, to,
Usage: 644

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

προσμένω 
Prosmeno 
continue with, continue in, be with, cleave unto, tarry, abide still
Usage: 4

δέησις 
Deesis 
Usage: 19

προσευχή 
Proseuche 
Usage: 31

νύξ 
Nux 
Usage: 52

References

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Images 1 Timothy 5:5

Prayers for 1 Timothy 5:5

Context Readings

Instructions About Widows

4 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. 5 Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night. 6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.



Cross References

Luke 2:37

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.

1 Timothy 5:3

Give honour to widows who are truly widows.

1 Corinthians 7:32

But it is my desire for you to be free from cares. The unmarried man gives his mind to the things of the Lord, how he may give pleasure to the Lord:

1 Peter 3:5

And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:

Luke 18:1

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

1 Timothy 5:16

If any woman of the faith has relations who are widows, let her give them help, so that the care of them does not come on the church, and so it may give help to those who are truly widowed.

Ruth 2:12

The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.

Psalm 91:4

You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

Isaiah 3:26

And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

Isaiah 12:2

See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

Isaiah 54:1

Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.

Lamentations 1:13

From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

Luke 18:7

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

Acts 26:7

For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!

Romans 1:5

Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Romans 1:12

That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

Romans 1:20-21

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

1 Corinthians 7:34

And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

Ephesians 6:18

With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

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