1 Timothy 5:3-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Honor widows who are really widows. 4 If a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some repayment to their parents, for this is pleasing in God’s sight.(A) 5 The real widow, left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,(B) 6 but the widow[a] who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.(C) 7 Give these commands as well, so that they may be above reproach.(D) 8 And whoever does not provide for relatives, and especially for family members, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.(E)
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- 5.6 Gk she
1 Timothy 5:3-8
International Standard Version
3 Honor widows who have no other family members to care for them.[a] 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God’s sight. 5 A woman who has no other family members to care for her[b] and who is left all alone has placed her hope in God and devotes herself to petitions and prayers night and day. 6 But the self-indulgent widow[c] is just as good as dead.
7 Continue to give these instructions, so that they may be blameless. 8 If anyone does not take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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- 1 Timothy 5:3 Lit. who are really widows
- 1 Timothy 5:5 Lit. who is really a widow
- 1 Timothy 5:6 Lit. the one
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