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1 Timothy 5:3

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

KJV

Χήρας τίμα τὰς ὄντως χήρας.

Greek NT

viduas honora, quæ vere viduæ sunt.

Vulgate

Honor widows that are widows indeed.

ASV

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

4 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

τιμάω
timao
verb · 21×
χήρα
chera
noun · 26×
o
article · 19778×
ὄντως
ontos
adverb · 10×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 2:17 — Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
  • 1Pet 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder
  • 1Thess 2:6 — Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
  • 1Tim 5:2 — The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
  • 1Tim 5:4 — But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
  • 1Tim 5:5 — Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
  • 1Tim 5:9 — Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
  • 1Tim 5:16 — If 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.
  • 1Tim 5:16 — If 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.
  • 1Tim 5:17 — Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
  • Acts 6:1 — And 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 9:39 — Then 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 shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she
  • Deut 10:18 — He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
  • Deut 14:29 — And 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 t
  • Deut 16:11 — And 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 fatherl
  • Deut 16:14 — And 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
  • Deut 27:19 — Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Exod 20:12 — Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
  • Jas 1:27 — Pure 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.
  • Jer 49:11 — Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
  • Job 29:13 — The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
  • Job 31:16 — If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
  • John 8:31 — Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
  • Luke 2:37 — And 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.
  • Matt 15:6 — And honour 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 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
  • Ps 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 94:6 — They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
  • Ps 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.