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1 Timothy 5 Bible study: Widows indeed

In 1 Timothy 5, relieved in "if she has relieved the afflicted" (5:10) and relieve, twice in 5:16, are one Greek verb the New Testament has nowhere else. And evident (5:24) and obvious (5:25) are one Greek word.

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“In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.”
1 Timothy 5:25 · World English Bible

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“1 Timothy 5:1-2 says to exhort an older man as a father, and the elder women as mothers.”

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What's really going on

Not rebuke, but exhort

In the text

"Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;" (5:1) (tap rebuke) "the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity." (5:2). Here is what almost everyone misses: the verb behind rebuke is one the New Testament has only here, and the verse sets it against another, exhort. Near the chapter's end comes "Keep yourself pure." (5:22), and Strong's gives the noun behind purity in 5:2 as coming from the word behind pure (tap pure there). The letter says these words to Timothy, and these notes apply them to no church or person today.

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  • Widows who are widows indeed
  • Let no one be enrolled
  • Without prejudice
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The Greek word behind it

ὄντωςontossay ON-tohs

Strong's: "really", and among its English words "indeed". "Honor widows who are widows indeed." (5:3), "Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate" (5:5), and "that it might relieve those who are widows indeed." (5:16): behind indeed each time is this adverb, so this chapter has it three times (at all three places in all eight editions TAGNT compares). Favor's 1 Corinthians 14 studies it and counts it in the New Testament.

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1 Timothy 5 Bible study questions

  1. 1"exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;" (5:1). Who among believers has been like a father, mother, brother or sister to you, and how could you thank them this week?
  2. 2"has her hope set on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day" (5:5). What helps you keep your hope set on God?
  3. 3"In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden." (5:25). What good work have you seen someone do that few people noticed?

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Last reviewed October 8, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home