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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 that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
¹⁶If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed. (1 Tim. 5:5,16)

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Honour.

1 Tim. 5:2,17• ²The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
¹⁷Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine. (1 Tim. 5:2,17)

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Ex. 20:12• ¹²Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. (Ex. 20:12)

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Matt. 15:6• ⁶And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. (Matt. 15:6)

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1 Thess. 2:6• ⁶Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. (1 Thess. 2:6)

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1 Peter 2:17• ¹⁷Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. (1 Peter 2:17)

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1 Peter 3:7• ⁷Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. (1 Peter 3:7)

widows.

1 Tim. 5:9• ⁹Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, (1 Tim. 5:9)

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Deut. 10:18• ¹⁸He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. (Deut. 10:18)

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

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Deut. 16:11,14• ¹¹And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
¹⁴And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within 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 ready to perish 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 have 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• ⁹The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. (Psa. 146:9)

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

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Matt. 23:14• ¹⁴Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. (Matt. 23:14)

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Luke 7:12• ¹²Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. (Luke 7:12)

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Acts 6:1• ¹And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. (Acts 6:1)

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Acts 9:39• ³⁹Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them. (Acts 9:39)

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James 1:27• ²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself 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 nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
⁵Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
⁹Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
¹⁰Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
¹¹But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
¹⁶If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed. (1 Tim. 5:4‑5,9‑11,16)

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Luke 2:37• ³⁷And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. (Luke 2:37)

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John 1:47• ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom 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;