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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Timothy 5:4 in context
1 Timothy 5:1–7
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Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
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the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
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Honor widows who are widows indeed.
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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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Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
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But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
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Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
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Notes from World English Bible Updated
- TR adds “good and”
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