1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be devoted to their own house, and to give back recompense to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3Support widows, the real widows.
Cross References
Genesis 47:12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Judges 12:14And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who rode on seventy donkey colts, and he judged Israel eight years.
Ruth 2:18And 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 satisfied.
Job 18:19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.
Isaiah 14:22And I will rise up against them, says LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says LORD.
Mark 7:11But ye say, If a man should say to his father or mother, Whatever ye might be benefited from me is Corban, that is, an offering,
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 5:4-17
Directions Concerning Widows. ( a. d. 64.) 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. 5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. 6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. 7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless. 8 But if any provide not… Read the whole commentary →