1 Timothy 5:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ Honour widows that are widows indeed.

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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 that wresteth the judgement of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Acts 6:1

Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Deuteronomy 14:29

and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He doth execute the judgement of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

1 Peter 2:17

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Deuteronomy 16:14

and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Deuteronomy 16:11

and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Exodus 20:12

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

1 Peter 3:7

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honour unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

nor seeking glory of men, neither from you, nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ.

Acts 9:39

And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

Luke 7:12

Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, there was carried out one that was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

Luke 2:37

and she had been a widow even for fourscore and four years), which departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

Matthew 23:13

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.

Matthew 15:6

he shall not honour his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Psalm 146:9

The LORD preserveth the strangers; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Psalm 94:6

They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless.

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

Job 31:16

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

Job 29:13

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

1 Timothy 5:2

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

John 1:47

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

Acts 9:41

And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.