1 Timothy 5:3

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Take care of widows who really need help.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:19

“The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who does not give fair judgment for the foreigners, orphans, and widows!’ “Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Acts 6:1

More and more people were becoming followers of Jesus. But during this same time, the Greek-speaking followers began to complain against the other Jewish followers. They said that their widows were not getting their share of what the followers received every day.

Deuteronomy 14:29

Keep this food for the Levites, because they don’t have any land of their own. Also keep this food for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. This will provide enough for them to come and eat all they want. If you do this, the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He defends widows and orphans. He loves even the strangers living among us. He gives them food and clothes.

1 Peter 2:17

Show respect for all people. Love your brothers and sisters in God’s family. Respect God, and honor the king.

Deuteronomy 16:14

Enjoy yourselves at this festival—you, your sons, your daughters, all your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows living in your towns.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Go to the place the Lord will choose to be the home for his name. You and your people should enjoy yourselves together there with the Lord your God. Take all your people with you—your sons, your daughters, and all your servants. And take the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows living in your towns.

Exodus 20:12

“You must honor and respect your father and your mother. Do this so that you will have a full life in the land that the Lord your God gives you.

1 Peter 3:7

In the same way, you husbands should live with your wives in an understanding way, since they are weaker than you. You should show them respect, because God gives them the same blessing he gives you—the grace of true life. Do this so that nothing will stop your prayers from being heard.

James 1:27

The worship that God wants is this: caring for orphans or widows who need help and keeping yourself free from the world’s evil influence. This is the kind of worship that God accepts as pure and good.

1 Thessalonians 2:6

We were not looking for praise from people—not from you or anyone else.

Acts 9:39

Peter got ready and went with them. When he arrived, they took him to the upstairs room. All the widows stood around him. They were crying and showing him the coats and other clothes that Tabitha had made during her time with them.

Luke 7:12

When Jesus came near the town gate, he saw some people carrying a dead body. It was the only son of a woman who was a widow. Walking with her were many other people from the town.

Luke 2:37

before he died and left her alone. She was now 84 years old. Anna was always at the Temple; she never left. She worshiped God by fasting and praying day and night.

Matthew 23:13

“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and you Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the way for people to enter God’s kingdom. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop those who are trying to enter.

Matthew 15:6

You are teaching them not to respect their father. So you are teaching that it is not important to do what God said. You think it is more important to follow those traditions you have.

Jeremiah 49:11

No one will be left to care for his children. His wives will have no one to depend on.”

Psalm 146:9

The Lord protects strangers in our country. He cares for widows and orphans, but he destroys the wicked.

Psalm 94:6

They kill widows and foreigners living in our country. They murder orphans.

Psalm 68:5

God, who lives in his holy palace, is a father to orphans, and he takes care of widows.

Job 31:16

“I have never refused to help the poor. I always gave widows what they needed.

Job 29:13

People who were dying asked God to bless me. My help brought joy to widows in need.

1 Timothy 5:2

Treat the older women like mothers. And treat the younger women with respect like sisters.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said, “This man coming is a true Israelite, one you can trust.”

Acts 9:41

He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. Then he called the believers and the widows into the room. He showed them Tabitha; she was alive!