1 Timothy 5:4

World English Bible (2000)

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' 5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
  • Mark 7:11-13 : 11 But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"' 12 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."
  • John 19:26-27 : 26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!" 27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" 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 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. 11 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
  • Ruth 2:2 : 2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." She said to her, "Go, my daughter."
  • Ruth 2:18 : 18 She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.
  • 1 Sam 22:3-4 : 3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me." 4 He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
  • Prov 31:28 : 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:
  • Isa 14:22 : 22 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son," says Yahweh.
  • Gen 47:12 : 12 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
  • Gen 47:28 : 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.
  • Judg 12:14 : 14 He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: 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 a 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. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Tim 5:1-3
    3 verses
    83%

    1 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

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

    3 Honor widows who are widows indeed.

  • 1 Tim 5:5
    77%

    5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

  • 1 Tim 5:7-11
    5 verses
    76%

    7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.

    8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

    9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

    10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

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

  • 1 Tim 5:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

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

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

  • Titus 2:2-5
    4 verses
    72%

    2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

    3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

    4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

  • Eph 6:1-4
    4 verses
    71%

    1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

    2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

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

    4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 3:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

    5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

  • Prov 17:6
    70%

    6 Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

  • Deut 5:16
    69%

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

  • Titus 1:6
    69%

    6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

  • Matt 15:4-5
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    69%

    4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

    5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"

  • Jas 1:27
    68%

    27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

  • Col 3:20
    68%

    20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

  • Lev 21:2
    68%

    2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,

  • Eph 5:1
    68%

    1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

  • 1 Tim 3:12
    67%

    12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

  • Titus 3:14
    67%

    14 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

  • Prov 22:6
    67%

    6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • 2 Cor 12:14
    66%

    14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

  • Prov 23:22
    66%

    22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

  • Exod 20:12
    66%

    12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Deut 25:5
    66%

    5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Lam 5:3
    66%

    3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Exod 22:22
    66%

    22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
    66%

    12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

  • 3 John 1:5-6
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    5 Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

    6 They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

  • Prov 4:1
    66%

    1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

  • Lev 19:32
    66%

    32 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

  • Job 8:4
    65%

    4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
    65%

    7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

  • Jer 49:11
    65%

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

  • 1 Tim 4:7
    65%

    7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.