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, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Deut 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
• Deut 14:29Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
• Acts 6:1In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
• Exod 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• 1 Tim 5:4–5But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
• 1 Tim 5:16–17If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.
• 1 Th 2:6Nor did we seek praise from you or from anyone else, although as apostles of Christ we had authority to demand it.
• Ps 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
• Deut 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
• Deut 16:14And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
• Matt 15:6he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
• Ps 146:9The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
• 1 Pet 2:17Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
• Job 29:13The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
• Ps 94:6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
• 1 Tim 5:9–11A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, the wife of one man,
• Jer 49:11Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
• Acts 9:39So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• Luke 2:37and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
• Job 31:16If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
• Jas 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
• 1 Pet 3:7Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
• Luke 7:12As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
• 1 Tim 5:2older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
• John 1:47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

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