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

And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who rode on seventy donkey colts, and he judged Israel eight years.

And 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.

Learn

And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me.

Her sons rise up, and call her blessed. Her husband [also], and he praises her.

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

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

Piety

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

But 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,

To requite

And thou shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shall be near to me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou have.

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

And Ruth 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 shall find favor. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

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

Good

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

General references

And there will I nourish thee, for there are yet five years of famine, lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou have.