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1 Tim. 5:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Honor widows that are widows indeedt.

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1 Tim. 5:5,16• ⁵Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
¹⁶If any believing man or woman have widows, let them impart relief to them, and let not the assembly be charged, that it may impart relief to those that are widows indeed. (1 Tim. 5:5,16)

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Honour.

1 Tim. 5:2,17• ²elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
¹⁷Let the elders who take the lead among the saints well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching; (1 Tim. 5:2,17)

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Ex. 20:12• ¹²Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee. (Ex. 20:12)

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Matt. 15:6• ⁶and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching. (Matt. 15:6)

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1 Thess. 2:6• ⁶nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles; (1 Thess. 2:6)

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1 Peter 2:17• ¹⁷Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king. (1 Peter 2:17)

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1 Peter 3:7• ⁷Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, as with a weaker, even the female, vessel, giving them honour, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. (1 Peter 3:7)

widows.

1 Tim. 5:9• ⁹Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man, (1 Tim. 5:9)

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Deut. 10:18• ¹⁸who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing. (Deut. 10:18)

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Deut. 14:29• ²⁹and the Levite--for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee--and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest. (Deut. 14:29)

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Deut. 16:11,14• ¹¹and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow that are in thy midst in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.
¹⁴And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in thy gates. (Deut. 16:11,14)

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Deut. 27:19• ¹⁹Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:19)

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Job 29:13• ¹³The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. (Job 29:13)

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Job 31:16• ¹⁶If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail; (Job 31:16)

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Psa. 68:5• ⁵A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. (Psa. 68:5)

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Psa. 94:6• ⁶They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless, (Psa. 94:6)

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Psa. 146:9• ⁹Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert. (Psa. 146:9)

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Jer. 49:11• ¹¹Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me. (Jer. 49:11)

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Matt. 23:14• ¹⁴(Verse 14 is omitted in this translation.) (Matt. 23:14)

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Luke 7:12• ¹²And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city was with her. (Luke 7:12)

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Acts 6:1• ¹But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration. (Acts 6:1)

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Acts 9:39• ³⁹And Peter rising up went with them, whom, when arrived, they brought up into the upper chamber; and all the widows stood by him weeping and shewing him the body-coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them. (Acts 9:39)

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James 1:27• ²⁷Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)

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1 Tim. 5:4‑5,9‑11,16• ⁴but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
⁵Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
⁹Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,
¹⁰borne witness to in good works, if she have brought up children, if she have exercised hospitality, if she have washed saints' feet, if she have imparted relief to the distressed, if she have diligently followed every good work.
¹¹But younger widows decline; for when they grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
¹⁶If any believing man or woman have widows, let them impart relief to them, and let not the assembly be charged, that it may impart relief to those that are widows indeed. (1 Tim. 5:4‑5,9‑11,16)

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Luke 2:37• ³⁷and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers; (Luke 2:37)

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John 1:47• ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold one truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile. (John 1:47)

• Some if not many might not need material proof of care; but due regard was to be paid to all that were really widows. By this he means that they lived in a way which marked their habitual sense of loneliness and bowed to it as from God. (“On 1 Timothy 5:1-8” by W. Kelly)

• She had no immediate relations to take care of her, and therefore was to be the more an object of honor; and if destitute that honor would certainly imply support more or less according to her need. (“On 1 Timothy 5:1-8” by W. Kelly)

• A "widow indeed" is not simply a person bereft of her husband, but one marked by certain moral qualities. Whether in need or not, such are to be held in honor. (“Warnings Against Worldliness and Instruction in Piety: 1 Timothy 5” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Honour widows who are really widows;

W. Kelly Translation

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Honour widows that are widows indeed;