1 Timothy 5:3

The church is to honor widows who are truly in need. It begins instruction on caring for the genuinely destitute.

Cross-references · 27

• Deut 27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
• Deut 10:18He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
• Deut 14:29The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
• Acts 6:1Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
• Exod 20:12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
• 1 Tim 5:4–5But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
• 1 Tim 5:16–17If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
• 1 Th 2:6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
• Ps 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
• Deut 16:11You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
• Deut 16:14You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
• Matt 15:6he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
• Ps 146:9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
• 1 Pet 2:17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
• Job 29:13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
• Ps 94:6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
• 1 Tim 5:9–11Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
• Jer 49:11Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
• Acts 9:39Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Luke 2:37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
• Job 31:16“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• 1 Pet 3:7You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
• Luke 7:12Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
• 1 Tim 5:2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
• John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

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