1 Timothy 5:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some repayment to their parents, for this is pleasing in God’s sight.

Cross References

Genesis 47:12

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

Genesis 47:28

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

Job 18:19

They have no offspring or descendant among their people and no survivor where they used to live.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children rise up and call her happy; her husband, too, and he praises her:

Isaiah 14:22

I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.

Luke 2:51

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

1 Timothy 2:3

This is right and acceptable before God our Savior,

1 Timothy 5:16

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her assist them; let the church not be burdened, so that it can assist those who are real widows.

Titus 1:11

they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.

Judges 12:14

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

Ruth 2:18

She picked it up and came into the town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. Then she took out and gave her what was left over after she herself had been satisfied.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain behind someone in whose sight I may find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”