1 Timothy 5:3
Honor as widows those that are widows indeed.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
In Context
2the elder women, as mothers; the younger, as sisters, with all purity.
Cross References
Job 29:13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, And I caused the heart of the widow to sing for joy.
Psalms 68:5The father of the fatherless, and the protector of the widow, Is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 146:9The LORD preserveth the strangers; He relieveth the fatherless and the widow; But the way of the wicked he maketh crooked.
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 →