1 Timothy 5:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

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

Job 18:19

He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, 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

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

1 Timothy 2:3

This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of 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 may assist those who are real widows.

Titus 1:11

they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for base gain what they have no right to teach.

Judges 12:14

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

Ruth 2:18

And she took it up and went into the city; she showed her mother-in-law what she had gleaned, and she also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”