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. He led Israel for eight years.

"I will rise up against them," says the Lord who commands armies. "I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, including the offspring she produces," says the Lord.

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Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me."

Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also praises her:

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

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, here is your son!"

Piety

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, 'Whatever help you would have received from me is corban' (that is, a gift for God),

To requite

You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me -- you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little children.

One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields so I can gather grain behind whoever permits me to do so." Naomi replied, "You may go, my daughter."

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

Good

Such prayer for all is good and welcomed before God our Savior,

General references

I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor -- you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you."'