1 Timothy 5:3
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
In Context
2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 14:29The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Deuteronomy 16:14You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
Job 29:13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 146:9The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but 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 →