1 Timothy 5:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

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  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death; 5 but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering `is' whatever thou mayest be profited by me; -- 6 and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.
  • Mark 7:11-13 : 11 and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), `is' whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine, 12 and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother, 13 setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'
  • John 19:26-27 : 26 Jesus, therefore, having seen `his' mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;' 27 afterward he saith to the disciple, `Lo, thy mother;' and from that hour the disciple took her to his own `home'.
  • 1 Tim 2:3 : 3 for this `is' right and acceptable before God our Saviour,
  • Gen 45:10-11 : 10 and thou hast dwelt in the land of Goshen, and been near unto me, thou and thy sons, and thy son's sons, and thy flock, and thy herd, and all that thou hast, 11 and I have nourished thee there -- for yet `are' five years of famine -- lest thou become poor, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast.
  • Ruth 2:2 : 2 And Ruth the Moabitess saith unto Naomi, `Let me go, I pray thee, into the field, and I gather among the ears of corn after him in whose eyes I find grace;' and she saith to her, `Go, my daughter.'
  • Ruth 2:18 : 18 and she taketh `it' up, and goeth into the city, and her mother-in-law seeth that which she hath gleaned, and she bringeth out and giveth to her that which she left from her satiety.
  • 1 Sam 22:3-4 : 3 And David goeth thence to Mizpeh of Moab, and saith unto the king of Moab, `Let, I pray thee, my father and my mother go out with you, till that I know what God doth for me;' 4 and he leadeth them before the king of Moab, and they dwell with him all the days of David's being in the fortress.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
  • Prov 31:28 : 28 Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,
  • Isa 14:22 : 22 And I have risen up against them, (The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts,) And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, Name and remnant, and continuator and successor, The affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Gen 47:12 : 12 and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father `with' bread, according to the mouth of the infants.
  • Gen 47:28 : 28 and Jacob liveth in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, are an hundred and forty and seven years.
  • Judg 12:14 : 14 and he hath forty sons, and thirty grandsons, riding on seventy ass-colts, and he judgeth Israel eight years.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; 2 honour thy father and mother, 3 which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

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  • 1 Tim 5:1-3
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    1 An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

    2 aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

    3 honour widows who are really widows;

  • 5 And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

  • 1 Tim 5:7-11
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    7 and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

    8 and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

    9 A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

    10 in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

    11 and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

  • 75%

    16 If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

    17 The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

  • 14 I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

  • Titus 2:2-5
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    2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

    3 aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

    4 that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,

    5 sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

  • Eph 6:1-4
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    1 The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

    2 honour thy father and mother,

    3 which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

    4 And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 3:4-5
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    4 his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

    5 (and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

  • 6 Sons' sons `are' the crown of old men, And the glory of sons `are' their fathers.

  • 16 `Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

  • 6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

  • Matt 15:4-5
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    4 for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

    5 but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering `is' whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --

  • 27 religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

  • 20 the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

  • 2 except for his relation who `is' near unto him -- for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother.

  • 1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

  • 12 Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

  • 14 and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

  • 6 Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

  • 8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

  • 14 Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

  • 22 Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

  • 12 `Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

  • 5 `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

  • 3 Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows.

  • 22 `Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

  • 12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

  • 3 John 1:5-6
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    5 Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,

    6 who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

  • 1 Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

  • 32 `At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.

  • 4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

  • 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

  • 11 Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,

  • 7 and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,