1 Timothy 5:5

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A widow who truly needs help and is left all alone puts her hope in God. She keeps on praying night and day and asking God for help.

Cross References

1 Timothy 5:3

Take care of widows who actually need help.

Luke 2:37

and after he died she had lived as a widow until she was 84. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, praying and going without food.

1 Peter 3:5

That’s how the holy women of the past used to make themselves beautiful when they put their hope in God and followed the lead of their own husbands.

1 Timothy 5:16

If a woman who’s a believer is already taking care of widows, she should continue to help them and not ask the church to care for them instead. That way the church will be able to help widows who have no other options.

1 Corinthians 7:32

I don’t want you to have anything to worry about. A single man is concerned about the things of the Lord. He wants to know how he can please the Lord.

Luke 18:1

Then Jesus told his disciples a story to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

Ephesians 6:18

Pray in the Spirit at all times, making all kinds of prayers and requests. Stay alert and always keep praying for all the Lord’s people.

Luke 18:7

And won’t God make things right for his chosen people, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

1 Corinthians 7:34

So he’s pulled in two directions. An unmarried or single woman is concerned about the things of the Lord. She wants to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of this world. She wants to know how she can please her husband.

Romans 1:12

I want us to encourage one another in the faith that we share.

Romans 1:5

Through him we received grace to become apostles to the Gentiles and through that grace to bring them to obedience to God by trusting in Jesus. We do this to bring glory to him.

Acts 26:7

Because our 12 tribes are hoping to see that promise come true, they serve God with faithful and honest hearts day and night. But it’s because I have the same hope, King Agrippa, that these Jews are bringing charges against me.

Acts 6:1

In those days when the number of disciples was growing, the Greek-speaking Jews complained about the Jews who were native to Judea. They said that their own widows weren’t getting their fair share of the food that was given out each day to those in need.

Acts 9:39

Peter came with them and when he arrived, he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothes Dorcas had made for them while she was alive.

Acts 9:41

He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called the believers, especially the widows, and showed them that she was alive.

Philippians 4:6

Don’t worry about anything, but in every situation, pray and give thanks to God and ask him to help you.

1 Timothy 2:1

First, I want you to pray for all people. Give thanks for them and ask God to help and bless them.

2 Timothy 1:3

I serve God, as did our people of long ago, with a clear conscience, and I thank God as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.