1 Timothy 5:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ But if any widow have children, or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house, and to make a return of duty to her parents: for this is acceptable before God.

1 Timothy 5:4 Cross References

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

Genesis 47:28

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.

Job 18:19

He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

Isaiah 14:22

“I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.

1 Timothy 2:3

This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

1 Timothy 5:16

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her assist them; let the church not be burdened, so that it may assist those who are real widows.

Titus 1:11

they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for base gain what they have no right to teach.

Judges 12:14

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy asses; and he judged Israel eight years.

Ruth 2:18

And she took it up and went into the city; she showed her mother-in-law what she had gleaned, and she also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”