1 Timothy 5:4

A Conservative Version

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be devoted to their own house, and to give back recompense to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

1 Timothy 2:3

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was being subordinate to them. And his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Proverbs 31:28

Her sons rise up, and call her blessed. Her husband [also], and he praises her.

Ruth 2:18

And she took it up, and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was satisfied.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now 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.

Isaiah 14:22

And I will rise up against them, says LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says LORD.

Job 18:19

He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.

Judges 12:14

And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who rode on seventy donkey colts, and he judged Israel eight years.

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 forty-seven years.

1 Timothy 5:16

If any believing man or believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and let not the congregation be burdened, so that it may relieve the real widows.

Titus 1:11

who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.