1 Timothy 5:3

Honour the widows, that are widows indeed.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

In Context

2the aged women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

4But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn as their first duty to shew their piety towards their own family, and make a grateful return to their progenitors: for this is becoming and acceptable before God.

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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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