1 Timothy 5:4

Modern English Version

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home and to repay their parents. For this is good and acceptable before God.

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and his father’s entire household, according to the number of their children.

Genesis 47:28

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so the years of Jacob’s life were one hundred and forty-seven years.

Job 18:19

He has neither descendant nor posterity among his people, nor anyone remaining in his dwellings.

Proverbs 31:28

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

Isaiah 14:22

For I will rise up against them, says the Lord of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, says the Lord.

Luke 2:51

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. But His mother kept all these words in her heart.

1 Timothy 2:3

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

1 Timothy 5:16

If any believing man or woman has widows, let those assist them. Do not let the church be charged, so that it may relieve those who are widows indeed.

Titus 1:11

who must be silenced, who subvert whole houses by teaching for dishonest gain things they ought not teach.

Judges 12:14

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode seventy donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.

Ruth 2:18

She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She drew it out and gave her what she had left, after she had been satisfied.

Ruth 2:2

Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the field and glean among the heads of grain behind anyone in whose eyes I may find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go, my daughter.”