Sinai1 Timothy 5:4
World English Bible
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
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1 Timothy 5:4 in other translations
But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 5:4 in context
- 2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
- 3Honor widows who are widows indeed.
- 4But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
- 5Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
- 6But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.