1 Timothy 5:4

New English Translation

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

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

Genesis 47:28

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.

Job 18:19

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

Proverbs 31:28

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

Isaiah 14:22

“I will rise up against them,” says the Lord who commands armies. “I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, including the offspring she produces,” 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 things in her heart.

1 Timothy 2:3

Such prayer for all is good and welcomed before God our Savior,

1 Timothy 5:16

If a believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need.

Titus 1:11

who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.

Judges 12:14

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

Ruth 2:18

She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much grain she had gathered. Then Ruth gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime.

Ruth 2:2

One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields so I can gather grain behind whoever permits me to do so.” Naomi replied, “You may go, my daughter.”