1 Timothy 5:4

Caring for widows is first the duty of their own children and grandchildren, not automatically the church's. Honoring one's parents this way pleases God.

Cross-references · 16

• Eph 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
• John 19:26–27Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
• Matt 15:4–6For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
• Gen 47:12Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
• Mark 7:11–13But 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”;’
• 1 Tim 2:3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
• Gen 45:10–11You 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.
• Luke 2:51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
• Ruth 2:18She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough.
• Prov 31:28Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:
• Ruth 2:2Ruth 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 find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”
• 1 Sam 22:3–4David went from 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.”
• Isa 14:22“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 47:28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
• Job 18:19He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
• Judg 12:14He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.

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