1 Timothy 5:3
honor widows who are really widows;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
In Context
2aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters—in all purity;
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
Deuteronomy 14:29and the Levite has come in—for he has no part and inheritance with you—and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within your gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that your God YHWH blesses you in all the work of your hand which you do.”
Deuteronomy 16:14and you have rejoiced in your celebration, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your handmaid, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] within your gates.
Job 29:13The blessing of the perishing comes on me, || And I cause the heart of the widow to sing.
Psalms 68:5Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, || [Is] God in His holy habitation.
Psalms 146:9YHWH is preserving the strangers, || He causes the fatherless and widow to stand, || And He turns the way of the wicked 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 →