{"id":3473,"date":"2014-10-31T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2023-04-03T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:29:05","slug":"1-timothy-53-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3473","title":{"rendered":"1 Timothy 5:3-7"},"content":{"rendered":"

3\u00a0<\/sup>Honor widows who are really widows.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

4\u00a0<\/sup>But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

5\u00a0<\/sup>Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

6\u00a0<\/sup>But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

7\u00a0<\/sup>And these things command, that they may be blameless.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

honor (v.3) = fix the value, estimate, venerate \u2014 properly appreciate \u2014 (here) includes financial support<\/h3>\n

really widows (v.3) = absolutely, truly \u2014 without financial means, indigent and without children or other relations \u2014 There may have been a lot of women in these circumstances due to persecution in the church or perhaps because they had been saved out of an untenable pagan lifestyle.<\/h3>\n

first (v.4) \u2014 shows that this obligation is primary<\/h3>\n

piety (v.4) = reverence, regard \u2014 in a practical sense<\/h3>\n

at home (v.4) = in one’s household, family<\/h3>\n

repay (v.4) = recompense, repay what is due for the care of them when young, discharge an obligation<\/h3>\n

parents (v.4) = lit. “to come before” \u2014 older relatives<\/h3>\n

good and (v.4) \u2014 not in the original manuscripts<\/h3>\n

acceptable (v.4) = well-pleasing<\/h3>\n

before (v.4) = in the sight of<\/h3>\n

now (v.5) \u2014 in contrast to those who have someone to support them<\/h3>\n

trusts (v.5) \u2014 should be “hopes” \u2014 tense is “has her hope settled permanently on God”<\/h3>\n

supplications (v5) \u2014 expressions of personal needs \u2014 It could be that these widows who received financial support from the church were, in return, involved in the ministry of praying and caring for the needs of others in the church.<\/h3>\n

prayers (v.5) = devotions<\/h3>\n

continues (v.5) = remains, abides<\/h3>\n

lives in pleasure (v.6) = lives with extravagant self-indulgence, luxuriously (used elsewhere in Scripture only in James 5:5)<\/h3>\n

dead (v.6) \u2014 spiritually dead. Verse 6 literally reads “But the one who lives luxuriously, lives while she is in the state of having died, with the result that she is dead.”<\/h3>\n

blameless (v.7) = with no grounds for blame<\/h3>\n

The conditions for receiving welfare from the church are, and should be, much stricter than they are for receiving welfare from the state.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3\u00a0Honor widows who are really widows. 4\u00a0But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God. 5\u00a0Now she who is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-timothy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7645,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/7645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}