1 Timothy 5

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Textual witnesses

• Codex Sinaiticus
• Codex Alexandrinus
• Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus
• Codex Freerianus
• Codex Claromontanus

  Old Testament references

• 1 Timothy 5:18:

  New Testament references

• 1 Timothy 5:18:

  "Real Widows" and Other Widows (5:3–16)

Verse 16

• "If any believing man or woman has widows": that is, if any member of a church have mothers, grandmothers or any near relatives who are widows, and incapable of taking care of themselves.
• "Let them relieve them and let not the church be charged": the members should take care of them out of their own substance; which is what Paul previously calls to show piety at home, and requit their own parents, so not burden the church with the maintenance of them.
• "Those who are really widows" : so the church may be in a better capacity, to supply the needs of the widows who have neither children nor any relatives to provide for them.

  The Rights of Elders (5:17–19)

Verse 18

• "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain": citing verbatim.
• "The laborer is worthy of his wages": citing 'a saying of Jesus', according to.