1 Timothy 5:4

English Standard Version 2016

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

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.

1 Timothy 2:3

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

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children 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. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabite 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.”

Isaiah 14:22

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

Job 18:19

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

Judges 12:14

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, 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 147 years.

1 Timothy 5:16

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.