1 Timothy 5:3
1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Honor the widows who are truly widows.
- KJV
- Honour widows that are widows indeed.
- WEB
- Honor widows who are widows indeed.
- ASV
- Honor widows that are widows indeed.
- DARBY
- Honour widows who are really widows;
- BLB
- Honor widows who [are] truly widows.
- ÅB
- Hedre enker som virkelig er enker!
- OTB
- Vis respekt for enker som virkelig er i nød;
- B1930
- Hedre enker som virkelig er enker!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Read in contextActs 6:1
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 14:29
And the Levite, (because he hath no part 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 10:18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
Read in contextPsalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Read in contextPsalms 146:9
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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 among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
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