1 Timothy 5:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Nephews

Judges 12:14

Isaiah 14:22

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Piety

Matthew 15:4

Mark 7:11

To requite

Good

1 Timothy 2:3

General references

Genesis 45:11

Bible References

Nephews

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

For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and scion and descendant, saith Jehovah.

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And David went thence to Mizpeh in Moab, and said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth amongst you, till I know what God will do for me.

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her:

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and he was in subjection to them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart.

Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.

Piety

For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

But 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 ...

To requite

And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near to me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, and thy sheep, and thy cattle, and all that thou hast.

And Joseph maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones.

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me, I pray, go to the field and glean among the ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find favour. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

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

Good

for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,

General references

And there will I maintain thee; for yet there are five years of famine; in order that thou be not impoverished, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.