1 Timothy 5:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Honour widows, that are widows indeed.

1 Timothy 5:3 Cross References

Job 29:13

The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Job 31:16

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail

Psalm 146:9

The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Psalm 68:5

Father of orphans and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Psalm 94:6

They kill the widow and the stranger; they murder the orphan,

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Jeremiah 49:11

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

Matthew 15:6

So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word of God.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.

Luke 2:37

then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day.

Luke 7:12

As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow, and with her was a large crowd from the town.

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

Acts 6:1

Now during those days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

Acts 9:39

So Peter got up and went with them, and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Acts 9:41

He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he showed her to be alive.

Deuteronomy 10:18

who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 14:29

the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Rejoice before the Lord your God—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites resident in your towns, as well as the strangers, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.

Deuteronomy 16:14

Rejoice during your festival, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, as well as the Levites, the strangers, the orphans, and the widows resident in your towns.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who deprives an alien, an orphan, or a widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

1 Thessalonians 2:6

nor did we seek praise from mortals, whether from you or from others,

1 Timothy 5:2

to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

1 Peter 2:17

Honor everyone. Love the family of believers. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman—though the weaker vessel, they are joint heirs of the gracious gift of life—so that nothing may hinder your prayers.