1 Timothy 5:3
Support widows, the real widows.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
In Context
2elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied, that LORD thy God may bless thee in al
Deuteronomy 16:14And thou shall rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates.
Job 29:13The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 146:9LORD preserves the sojourners. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 5:2-3
Directions Concerning Reproofs. ( a. d. 64.) 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. Here the apostle gives rules to Timothy, and in him to other ministers, in reproving. Ministers are reprovers by office; it is a part, though the least pleasing part, of their office; they are to preach the word, to reprove and rebuke, 2 Tim. iv. 2 . A great difference is to be made in our reproofs, according to the… Read the whole commentary →