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Contemporary English Version
1 Timothy 5:3
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Support widows who are genuinely in need.
Honour widowes that are widowes indeed.
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Honor widows who are truly widows.
Honor widows who are actually widows;
Take care of widows who are truly widows.
Honor widows who are widows indeed;
Honor widows who are widows indeed,
Honor the widows who are truly widows.
Show respect to widows who are really in need.
Honour widows who are really widows;
Take care of widows who really need help.
Honour widowes, which are widowes in deede.
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
Show respect for widows who really are all alone.
Honor widows who are truly widows.
Honor widows, the ones being true widows.
Honor and help those widows who are truly widowed [alone, and without support].
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
Give honour to widows who are truly widows.
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
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The widows honour them who are widows in truth.
Honor widows, who are truly widows.
Honour wydowes, whiche are wydowes in deede.
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
Honour widows that are widows indeed. But if any widow have children or grand children, let these learn first to shew piety at home,
Honour widows who are really in need.
Honoure thou widewis, that ben very widewis.
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
Honor widows who are truly in need.
Honor widows who are really widows.
Take care of any widow who has no one else to care for her.
Help women whose husbands have died.
Honor widows who are really widows.
Widows, honour thou - who indeed are widows: -
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Honor widows who are real widows.
Honoure widdowes which are true wyddowes.
honour widows who are really widows;
Honor wedowes, which are true wedowes.
show regard to widows that are really such.
Take care of widows who are destitute. If a widow has family members to take care of her, let them learn that religion begins at their own doorstep and that they should pay back with gratitude some of what they have received. This pleases God immensely. You can tell a legitimate widow by the way she has put all her hope in God, praying to him constantly for the needs of others as well as her own. But a widow who exploits people's emotions and pocketbooks—well, there's nothing to her. Tell these things to the people so that they will do the right thing in their extended family. Anyone who neglects to care for family members in need repudiates the faith. That's worse than refusing to believe in the first place.
If a widow needs a hand, be the first to offer it.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Honour: 1 Timothy 5:2, 1 Timothy 5:17, Exodus 20:12, Matthew 15:6, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 1 Peter 2:17, 1 Peter 3:7
widows: 1 Timothy 5:9, Deuteronomy 10:18, Deuteronomy 14:29, Deuteronomy 16:11, Deuteronomy 16:14, Deuteronomy 27:19, Job 29:13, Job 31:16, Psalms 68:5, Psalms 94:6, Psalms 146:9, Jeremiah 49:11, Matthew 23:14, Luke 7:12, Acts 6:1, Acts 9:39, James 1:27
indeed: 1 Timothy 5:4, 1 Timothy 5:5, 1 Timothy 5:9-11, 1 Timothy 5:16, Luke 2:37, John 1:47
Reciprocal: John 8:31 - my disciples Acts 28:10 - honoured
Cross-References
Adam and his wife had another son. They named him Seth, because they said, "God has given us a son to take the place of Abel, who was killed by his brother Cain."
When Adam was one hundred thirty, he had a son who was just like him, and he named him Seth. Adam had more children
and died at the age of nine hundred ten.
Mahalalel had more children
There's no way a human can be completely pure.
How can anyone be innocent in the sight of God?
I have sinned and done wrong since the day I was born.
The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come down to you, and God's power will come over you. So your child will be called the holy Son of God.
Humans give life to their children. Yet only God's Spirit can change you into a child of God.
Adam sinned, and that sin brought death into the world. Now everyone has sinned, and so everyone must die.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Honour widows that are widows indeed. Who those are, see in 1 Timothy 1:5. The honour to be given them is not a putting of them into the office of a deaconess, in the church; which office, some think, is referred to in Acts 6:1, and did obtain in some of the primitive churches; and it might be that some of these widows, the apostle here and hereafter speaks of, might be preferred to the rest, and be set over them, and have the care of such, who were more infirm; but then this could only be the case of some, whereas the honour here spoken of is what is to be given to all that are really widows; and therefore rather regards some external honour and respect to be shown them, by words and actions; and especially it designs an honourable provision for them, and maintenance of them; in which sense the word is used in 1 Timothy 5:17. So, with the Jews, giving gifts to persons, and making presents to them, is called honour. When Manoah asked the angel's name, that he might do him honour, when his saying came to pass, Judges 13:17 the sense, according to them, is q,
"that I may inquire in what place I may find thee, when thy prophecy is fulfilled, and give thee דורון, "a gift"; for there is no honour but what signifies a gift, as it is said, Numbers 22:17, "honouring I will honour thee".''
So giving gifts to the poor, or providing for their maintenance, is doing them honour; and that this is the sense here, appears by what follows in the context.
q Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 10. fol. 199. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Honour widows - The particular attention and respect which are enjoined here, seem to refer to the class of widows who were supported by the church, and who were entrusted with the performance of certain duties toward the other female members, see 1 Timothy 5:9. It is to be remembered that the contact of the sexes was much more circumscribed in Oriental countries than it is among us; that access to the female members of the church would be much less free than it is now, and that consequently there might have been a special propriety in entrusting the duty of watching over the younger among them to the more aged. This duty would be naturally entrusted to those who had not the care of families. It would also be natural to commit it, if they were qualified, to those who had not the means of support, and who, while they were maintained by the church, might be rendering a valuable service to it. It would seem, therefore, that there was a class of this description, who were entrusted with these duties, and in regard to whose qualifications it was proper that Timothy should be instructed. The change of customs in society has made this class less necessary, and probably the arrangement was never designed to be permanent, but still it may be a question whether such an arrangement would not now be wise and useful in the church. On this subject, see the notes on Romans 16:1.
That are widows indeed - Who are truly widows. We associate with the word “widow,” commonly, not only the idea of the loss of a husband, but many other things that are the usual accompaniments of widowhood - a poor and dependent condition; care and solicitude; sadness and sorrow. This idea is implied in the use of the word employed here - χήρα chēra - which means properly one who is “bereaved,” (from the adjective χήρος chēros, “bereaved”), and which, as Calvin says, conveys the idea of one in distressed circumstances. What Paul regarded as constituting true widowhood, he specifies in 1 Timothy 5:4-5, 1 Timothy 5:9-10. He connects with it the idea that she had no persons dependent on her; that she was desolate, and evinced true trust in God; that she was so aged that she would not marry again; and that by her life she had given evidence of possessing a heart of true benevolence; 1 Timothy 5:10.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Timothy 5:3. Honour widows that are widows indeed. — One meaning of the word τιμαω, to honour, is to support, sustain, c., Matthew 15:4-5; and here it is most obviously to be taken in this sense. Provide for those widows especially which are widows indeed-persons truly destitute, being aged and helpless, and having neither children nor friends to take care of them, and who behave as becometh their destitute state. But see the note on 1 Timothy 5:10.
