1 Timothy 5:3
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Updated King James Version
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
Exodus 20:12Honour your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which 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 yours hand which you do.
Deuteronomy 16:14And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.
Job 29:13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 146:9The LORD perserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns 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 →