1 Timothy 5:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 3 And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But if a widow has children or grandchildren, see to it that these are first made to understand that it is their religious duty [to defray their natural obligation to those] at home, and make return to their parents or grandparents [for all their care by contributing to their maintenance], for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Common English Bible

⁴ But if a particular widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to respect their own family and repay their parents, because this pleases God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let her first learn to manage her own household, and to fulfill, in turn, her own obligation to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

1 Timothy 5:4 Cross References

Genesis 47:12

3 For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had op- pressed the land: more especially of Egypt and Chanaan.

Genesis 47:28

9 And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt:

Job 18:19

Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.

Proverbs 31:28

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.

Isaiah 14:22

0 And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and I will kill thy remnant.

Luke 2:51

He said therefore to the multitudes that went forth to be baptized by him: Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

1 Timothy 2:3

2 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

1 Timothy 5:16

5 In like manner also good deeds are manifest: and they that are otherwise, cannot be hid.

Titus 1:11

That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Judges 12:14

Now therefore beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.

Ruth 2:18

3 So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.

Ruth 2:2

And she desired leave to glean the ears of corn that remain, following the steps of the reapers: and she hath been in the field from morning till now, and hath not gone home for one moment.