1 Timothy 5:2-6

Instructions for the Church

² older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

³ Honor widows _d who are truly widows. ⁴ But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn _e to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for _f this is pleasing in the sight of God. 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 5:5
   She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
   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
   Matthew 15:4 - 6
   For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.
   Mark 7:10 - 13
   For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.
   Ephesians 6:1 - 2
   Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
   Genesis 45:9 - 11
   Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Timothy 2:3
   This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior.
   
4. 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.
   
5. 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.
   
6. 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.
   
7. 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.