1 Timothy 5:4

Instructions About Widows

³ Honor and help those widows who are truly widowed [alone, and without support]. ⁴ But if a widow has children or grandchildren [who are adults], see to it that these first learn to show great respect to their own family [as their religious duty and natural obligation], and to compensate their parents or grandparents [for their upbringing]; for this is acceptable and pleasing in the sight of God. ⁵ Now a woman who is really a widow and has been left [entirely] alone [without adequate income] trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

All Things

Before God

In the Sight of God

O God

1 Timothy 2:3

This [kind of praying] is good and acceptable and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

Genesis 45:10-11

You shall live in the land of Goshen [the best pasture land of Egypt], and you shall be close to me—you and your children and your grandchildren, your flocks and your herds and all you have.

Matthew 15:4-6

For God said [through Moses], ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of or insults or treats improperly father or mother is to be put to death.’

Mark 7:11-13

but you [Pharisees and scribes] say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you is Corban, (that is to say, already a gift to God),”’

Genesis 47:12

Joseph provided and supplied his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to [the needs of] their children.

Genesis 47:28

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was a hundred and forty-seven years.

Judges 12:14

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

Ruth 2:2

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one [of the reapers] in whose sight I may find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

Ruth 2:18

She picked it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Ruth also took out and gave to Naomi what she had saved after she [had eaten and] was satisfied.

1 Samuel 22:3-4

And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come [out of Judah] and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

Job 18:19

“He has no offspring or prosperity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

Proverbs 31:28

Her children rise up and call her blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired);
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying,

Isaiah 14:22

“I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, and son and grandson,” declares the Lord.

Luke 2:51

He went down to Nazareth with them, and was continually submissive and obedient to them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart.

John 19:26-27

So Jesus, seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved (esteemed) standing near, said to His mother, “[Dear] woman, look, [here is] your son!”

Ephesians 6:1-3

Children, obey your parents in the Lord [that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives], for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline].