1 Timothy 5:4

New Living Translation

But if she has children or grandchildren, their first responsibility is to show godliness at home and repay their parents by taking care of them. This is something that pleases God.

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph provided food for his father and his brothers in amounts appropriate to the number of their dependents, including the smallest children.

Genesis 47:28

Jacob lived for seventeen years after his arrival in Egypt, so he lived 147 years in all.

Job 18:19

They will have neither children nor grandchildren, nor any survivor in the place where they lived.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children stand and bless her. Her husband praises her:

Isaiah 14:22

This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “I, myself, have risen against Babylon! I will destroy its children and its children’s children,” says the Lord.

Luke 2:51

Then he returned to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. And his mother stored all these things in her heart.

1 Timothy 2:3

This is good and pleases God our Savior,

1 Timothy 5:16

If a woman who is a believer has relatives who are widows, she must take care of them and not put the responsibility on the church. Then the church can care for the widows who are truly alone.

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced, because they are turning whole families away from the truth by their false teaching. And they do it only for money.

Judges 12:14

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

Ruth 2:18

She carried it back into town and showed it to her mother-in-law. Ruth also gave her the roasted grain that was left over from her meal.

Ruth 2:2

One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go out into the harvest fields to pick up the stalks of grain left behind by anyone who is kind enough to let me do it.” Naomi replied, “All right, my daughter, go ahead.”