1 Timothy 5:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one.

1 Timothy 2:3

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

Luke 2:51

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

Proverbs 31:28

Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her.

Ruth 2:18

Which she took up and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother-in-law: Moreover she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabitess said to her mother-in-law: If thou wilt, I will go into the field, and glean the ears of corn that escape the hands of the reapers, wheresoever I shall find grace with a householder that will be favourable to me. And she answered her: Go, my daughter.

Isaiah 14:22

And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains, and the bud, and the offspring, saith the Lord.

Job 18:19

His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

Judges 12:14

And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

Genesis 47:28

And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.

1 Timothy 5:16

If any of the faithful have widows, let him minister to them, and let not the church be charged: that there may be sufficient for them that are widows indeed.

Titus 1:11

Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.