1 Timothy 5:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ Honor widows who are real 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

Deuteronomy 27:19

“ ‘Cursed be he who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Acts 6:1

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.

Deuteronomy 14:29

and the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

Deuteronomy 10:18

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

1 Peter 2:17

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Deuteronomy 16:14

you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.

Deuteronomy 16:11

and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place which the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker sex, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

nor did we seek glory from men, whether from you or from others, though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ.

Acts 9:39

So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

Luke 7:12

As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her.

Luke 2:37

and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Matthew 15:6

So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.

Jeremiah 49:11

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

Psalm 146:9

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

Psalm 94:6

They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

Psalm 68:5

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

Job 31:16

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

Job 29:13

The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

1 Timothy 5:2

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathana-el coming to him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!”

Acts 9:41

And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive.