Verse 4

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,” 6 he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.
  • Mark 7:11-13 : 11 But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother,‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’(that is, a gift for God), 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother. 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
  • John 19:26-27 : 26 So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother,“Woman, look, here is your son!” 27 He then said to his disciple,“Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.
  • 1 Tim 2:3 : 3 Such prayer for all is good and welcomed before God our Savior,
  • Gen 45:10-11 : 10 You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me– you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have. 11 I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor– you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’
  • Ruth 2:2 : 2 One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi,“Let me go to the fields so I can gather grain behind whoever permits me to do so.” Naomi replied,“You may go, my daughter.”
  • Ruth 2:18 : 18 Ruth Returns to Naomi She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much grain she had gathered. Then Ruth gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime.
  • 1 Sam 22:3-4 : 3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab,“Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me.” 4 So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time that David was in the stronghold.
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.
  • Prov 31:28 : 28 Her children have risen and called her blessed; her husband also has praised her:
  • Isa 14:22 : 22 “I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, including the offspring she produces,” says the LORD.
  • Gen 47:12 : 12 Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.
  • Gen 47:28 : 28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.
  • Judg 12:14 : 14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for 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 accompanied by a promise, namely, 3 “that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.