1 Timothy 5:3 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³ Honor widows who are really widows.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Honour widows that are widows indeed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ [Always] treat with great consideration and give aid to those who are truly widowed (solitary and without support).

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Honor widows that are widows indeed.

Common English Bible

³ Take care of widows who are truly needy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Honor those widows who are true widows.

1 Timothy 5:3 Cross References

Matthew 15:6

then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus you have nullified the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Luke 2:37

and she [was] a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Luke 7:12

And when He came near the gate of the city, that behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And many people from the city was with her.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!"

Acts 6:1

Now in those days, as the disciples were increasing in number, there arose a complaint from the Greek speaking Jews against the Aramaic speaking Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

Acts 9:39

And arising, Peter went with them. When he arrived, they took him into the upper room, and all the widows stood beside him weeping, showing [him ]tunics and cloaks which Dorcas was making, [while ]she was with them.

Acts 9:41

And giving to her his hand, he raised her up; and when he called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

Nor seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, even though we were able to carry weight as apostles of Christ.

1 Timothy 5:2

older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God and [the] Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

1 Peter 2:17

Honor all [people]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, likewise, live together according to knowledge as with a weaker vessel, with the wife, showing her honor as also a fellow heir of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.