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 donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.

"I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity," declares the LORD.

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And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me."

Her children 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 submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"

Piety

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban"' (that is, given to God)--

To requite

You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me 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 the Lord, for this is right.

Good

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

General references

There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.'