1 Timothy 5:3
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Honour.

1 Timothy 5:2, 17
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. . . .

Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Matthew 15:6
he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor did we seek praise from you or from anyone else, although as apostles of Christ we had authority to demand it.

1 Peter 2:17
Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, 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.

widows.

1 Timothy 5:9
A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, the wife of one man,

Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 14:29
Then 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.

Deuteronomy 16:11, 14
and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place where 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. . . .

Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.' And let all the people say, 'Amen!'

Job 29:13
The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow's heart sing for joy.

Job 31:16
If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow's eyes to fail,

Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

Psalm 94:6
They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

Psalm 146:9
The LORD protects the sojourners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

Jeremiah 49:11
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me."

Matthew 23:14
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Luke 7:12
As 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 sizeable crowd from the town was with her.

Acts 6:1
In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

Acts 9:39
So 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.

James 1:27
Pure 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.

indeed.

1 Timothy 5:4, 5, 9-11, 16
But 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. . . .

Luke 2:37
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

John 1:47
When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit."

1 Timothy 5:2
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