1 Timothy 5:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

Genesis 47:28

And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

Job 18:19

He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,

Isaiah 14:22

For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth; and did as he was ordered: and his mother kept all these words in her heart.

1 Timothy 2:3

This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;

1 Timothy 5:16

If any woman of the faith has relations who are widows, let her give them help, so that the care of them does not come on the church, and so it may give help to those who are truly widowed.

Titus 1:11

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

Judges 12:14

He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.

Ruth 2:18

And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.