1 Timothy 5:3
Help widows who don't have a family.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
In Context
2older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with the highest standards of decency.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 14:29This way the Levites (who don't have any share in the allotment of land), the foreigners, the orphans, and the widows in your town will be provided with what they need. The Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
Deuteronomy 16:14Enjoy your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levites who live in your towns, as well as the foreigners, orphans, and widows among you.
Job 29:13Those who were about to die blessed me; I made the widow sing for joy.
Psalms 68:5He is a father to the orphans, a protector of widows. This is who God is, who lives in his holy place.
Psalms 146:9The Lord takes care of strangers among us. He looks after widows and orphans. But he makes life difficult for the wicked.
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 →