1 Timothy 5:3
Honor widows, the real widows.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
In Context
2Exhort older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters in all purity.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 14:29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates, will come and eat and be satisfied. Do this so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.
Deuteronomy 16:14You will rejoice during your festival—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.
Job 29:13The blessing of him who was about to perish came on me; 1 I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 1
Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, a judge of the widows, 1 is God in the holy place where he lives. 1
Psalms 146:9Yahweh protects the foreigners in the land; 1 he lifts up the fatherless and widow, 1 but he opposes the wicked. 1
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 →