1 Timothy 5:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

1 Timothy 5:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 5:3-5
Honour widows that are widows indeed. …
1 Timothy 5:8
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Beneficence Benevolence Charity Church Collection

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-16)

Directions are here given concerning the taking of widows into the number of those who were employed by the church and had maintenance from the church: Honour widows that are widows indeed. Honour them, that is, maintain them, admit them into office. There was in those times an office in the church in which widows were employed, and that was to tend the sick and the aged, to look to them by the di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. If any ... have widows--of his family, however related to him. Most of the oldest manuscripts and versions omit “man or,” and read, “If any woman that believeth.” But the Received text seems preferable. If, however, the weightiest authorities are to prevail, the sense will be: He was speaking of younger widows; He now says, If any believing young widow have widows related to her needing suppor…