1 Timothy 5:4

New International Version

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

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

1 Timothy 2:3

This is good, and pleases God our Savior,

Luke 2:51

Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.

Proverbs 31:28

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

Ruth 2:18

She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

Isaiah 14:22

“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord Almighty. “I will wipe out Babylon’s name and survivors, her offspring and descendants,” declares the Lord.

Job 18:19

He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.

Judges 12:14

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

Genesis 47:28

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

1 Timothy 5:16

If any woman who is a believer has widows in her care, she should continue to help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need.

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.