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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 left desolate, hath set her hope on God and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
¹⁶If any believing [man or] woman hath widows, let [such an one] relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that it may relieve those that are really widows. (1 Tim. 5:5,16)

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Honour.

1 Tim. 5:2,17• ²elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters in all purity.
¹⁷Let the elders that preside well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they that labour in word and teaching. (1 Tim. 5:2,17)

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

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Matt. 15:6• ⁶{i}and 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.{/i} (Matt. 15:6)

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

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

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1 Peter 3:7• ⁷Ye husbands, likewise, dwelling with [them] according to knowledge, awarding honour as to a weaker vessel(the female, 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 enrolled not more than sixty years old, wife of one man, (1 Tim. 5:9)

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Deut. 10:18• ¹⁸{i}who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.{/i} (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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant{i}, and the Levite that is in thy gates{/i}, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you {i}in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there{/i}.
¹⁴{i}And{/i} thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son and thy daughter{i}, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in thy gates{/i}. (Deut. 16:11,14)

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

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Job 29:13• ¹³The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing. (Job 29:13)

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Job 31:16• ¹⁶If I kept back the poor from [their] desire,{HR}And the eyes of the widow made to pine, (Job 31:16)

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Psa. 68:5• ⁵A father of orphans and a judge of widows{HR}[Is] God in the habitation of his holiness. (Psa. 68:5)

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

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Psa. 146:9• ⁹Jehovah keepeth strangers;{HR}Orphans and widows he upholdeth;{HR}And the way of wicked ones he maketh crooked. (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• ¹⁴(Verse not included 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 [was] with her. (Luke 7:12)

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

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Acts 9:39• ³⁹And Peter rose up, and went with them; whom, on his arrival, they brought up into the upper room; and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing [the] coats and cloaks which Dorcas used to make while she was with them. (Acts 9:39)

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James 1:27• ²⁷A religious service pure and undefiled before him that is God and Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, 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 hath children or descendants, let them learn first to show piety toward their own house and render requital to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
⁵Now she that is a widow indeed, and left desolate, hath set her hope on God and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
⁹Let a widow be enrolled not more than sixty years old, wife of one man,
¹⁰witnessed of in good works, if she reared children, if she entertained strangers, if she washed saints' feet, if she relieved afflicted [persons], if she followed up every good work.
¹¹But younger widows refuse; for when they wax wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,
¹⁶If any believing [man or] woman hath widows, let [such an one] relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that it may relieve those that are really widows. (1 Tim. 5:4‑5,9‑11,16)

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Luke 2:37• ³⁷{i}and{/i} she was 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 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;