1 Timothy 5:3
Honor those widows who are true widows.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
In Context
2with old women, like mothers; with young women, in all chastity, like sisters.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall do.”
Deuteronomy 16:14And you shall feast at the time of your festival: you, your son and daughter, your man servant and woman servant, likewise the Levite and the new arrival, the orphan and the widow, who are within your gates.
Job 29:13The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.
Psalms 68:5Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.
Psalms 146:9He gives their food to beasts of burden and to young ravens that call upon him.
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 →