1 Timothy 5:4
but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to [their] parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3Honour widows who are really widows;
Cross References
Genesis 47:12And Joseph maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones.
Judges 12:14And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy ass colts. And he judged Israel eight years.
Ruth 2:18And she took [it] up, and came 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 reserved after she was sufficed.
Job 18:19He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
Isaiah 14:22For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and scion and descendant, saith Jehovah.
Mark 7:11But *ye* say, If a man say to his father or his mother, [It is] corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by
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 →