1 Timothy 5:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die. 5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; 6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
  • Mark 7:11-13 : 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is, a gift to God, by which you might have been benefited by me; he shall be free. 12 And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 13 Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things.
  • John 19:26-27 : 26 When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, Woman, behold your son! 27 Then he said to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
  • 1 Tim 2:3 : 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
  • Gen 45:10-11 : 10 And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have. 11 And there I will provide for you; for there are still five years of famine, lest you and your household and all that you have come to poverty.
  • Ruth 2:2 : 2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field and glean ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.
  • Ruth 2:18 : 18 Then she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out and gave to her what she had reserved after she was satisfied.
  • 1 Sam 22:3-4 : 3 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray you, come out and be with you, until I know what God will do for me. 4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He shall neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
  • Prov 31:28 : 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.
  • Isa 14:22 : 22 For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, says the LORD.
  • Gen 47:12 : 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
  • Gen 47:28 : 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was one hundred forty-seven years.
  • Judg 12:14 : 14 And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy young donkeys: and he judged Israel eight years.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise; 3 That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

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    1Do not rebuke an elder, but appeal to him as a father; and the younger men as brothers;

    2The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

    3Honor widows who are truly widows.

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    5Now she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

  • 1 Tim 5:7-11
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    7And these things command, that they may be blameless.

    8But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

    9Do not let a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

    10Well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

    11But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

  • 1 Tim 5:16-17
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    16If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, so that it may relieve those who are truly widows.

    17Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14Therefore I desire that the younger women marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

  • Titus 2:2-5
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    2That the older men be sober, dignified, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.

    3The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine, teachers of good things;

    4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

  • Eph 6:1-4
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    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

    2Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise;

    3That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

    4And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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    4One who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all respectfulness;

    5For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

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    6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

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    16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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    6If anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.

  • Matt 15:4-5
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    4For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die.

    5But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me;

  • Jas 1:27
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    27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

  • Col 3:20
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    20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

  • Lev 21:2
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    2But for his relative who is near to him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

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    1Be therefore followers of God, as beloved children;

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    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

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    22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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    12Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Deut 25:5
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    5If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

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    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

  • Exod 22:22
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    22You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12That you may walk honestly toward those who are outside, and that you may have lack of nothing.

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    1Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.

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    32You shall rise before the gray-headed, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.

  • Job 8:4
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    4If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression;

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    7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love.

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    11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

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    7But refuse profane and old wives' tales, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.