1 Timothy 5:5-6

Instructions for the Church

⁵ She _g who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and _h continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ⁶ but _i she who is self-indulgent is _j dead even while she lives.

1. Cross References
   1 Timothy 5:3
   Honor widows who are truly widows.
   1 Timothy 5:16
   If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.
   
2. Cross References
   Luke 2:37
   And then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
   Luke 18:1 - 5
   And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
   
3. Cross References
   James 5:5
   You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
   Ezekiel 16:49
   Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
   
4. Cross References
   Revelation 3:1
   And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. "'I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.