1 Timothy 5:4

Modern King James Version

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph nourished his father and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, for the mouth of the little ones.

Genesis 47:28

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty-seven years.

Job 18:19

He shall have neither son nor kinsman among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Proverbs 31:28

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

Isaiah 14:22

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

Luke 2:51

And He went with them and came to Nazareth, and He was subject to them. But His mother kept all these sayings 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 believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be charged, so that it may relieve those who are widows indeed.

Titus 1:11

whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.

Judges 12:14

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

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 it forth, and gave to her what she had kept after she was satisfied.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth of Moab said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field and glean ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.