1 Timothy 5:3

Make sure that the congregation takes care of widows who have no one to care for them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

In Context

2Exhort/advise older women respectfully as you would exhort/advise your mother. Exhort/advise younger women gently as you would exhort/advise your sisters; but you must act in a completely proper way as you do that.

4If a widow has children or grandchildren, these children or grandchildren should learn that they are to take care of their own family first. By doing that they can repay their parents and grandparents for all that they did for them when they were young, because doing that pleases God.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12Honor/Respect your fathers and your mothers, in order that you may live a long time in the land that I, Yahweh God, will give you.

Deuteronomy 14:29That food is for the descendants of Levi, because they do not have their own land, and for foreigners who live among you, and for orphans and widows who live in your towns. They are permitted to come to where the food is stored and take what they need. Do that in order that Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do.”

Deuteronomy 16:14Each married couple along with their children, their servants, the descendants of Levi who are in that town, and the foreigners, orphans, and widows who are living among you, should be joyful in the presence of Yahweh.

Job 29:13Those who were suffering and about to die praised [PRS] me, and I caused widows [SYN] to sing joyfully, because of my helping them.

Psalms 68:5God, who lives in his sacred temple, is like [MET] a father to those who are orphans, and he is the one who protects widows.

Psalms 146:9Yahweh takes care of those from other countries who live in our land, and he helps widows and orphans. But he gets rid of wicked people.

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 →

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