1 Timothy 5:3

The English Standar Version

Honor widows who are truly widows.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:19

" 'Cursed be anyone 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, a complaint by the Hellenists[1] arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being 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 everyone. 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 male servant and your female servant, 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 male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that 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 that the LORD your God is giving you.

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you[1] of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, 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 people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.

Acts 9:39

So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics[4] and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

Luke 7:12

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

Luke 2:37

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four.[5] 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! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[4]

Matthew 15:6

he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word[2] 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 kill 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 Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!"

Acts 9:41

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