1 Timothy 5:4

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number in their families.

Genesis 47:28

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the length of Jacob’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years.

Job 18:19

He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any 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 offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.

Luke 2:51

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but His mother kept all these things 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 them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are really widows.

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

Judges 12:14

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

Ruth 2:18

Then she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to her what she had kept back after she had been satisfied.

Ruth 2:2

So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”