8If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.


In Context

5 The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.

6 But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

7 Give the people these instructions, too, so that no one may be open to blame.

8 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

9 No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,

10 and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the saints, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.

1st Timothy 5:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of his house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8But if any provideth not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8and if any one for his own — and especially for those of the household — doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.