1 Timothy 5:4

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Cross References (16)

  • Ephesians 6:1–3 (10)

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

  • John 19:26–27 (7)

    When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your so

  • Matthew 15:4–6 (7)

    For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

  • Genesis 47:12 (6)

    Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.

  • Mark 7:11–13 (5)

    But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a

  • Genesis 45:10–11 (5)

    You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, an

  • 1 Timothy 2:3 (5)

    This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

  • Luke 2:51 (4)

    Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her he

  • Proverbs 31:28 (4)

    Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well:

  • 1 Samuel 22:3–4 (4)

    From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with y

  • Ruth 2:18 (4)

    She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out wh

  • Ruth 2:2 (4)

    And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose

  • Judges 12:14 (3)

    He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

  • Job 18:19 (3)

    He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

  • Genesis 47:28 (3)

    And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

  • Isaiah 14:22 (3)

    “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her of