1 Timothy 5:4

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1 Timothy 5:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

3 Honor the widows who are truly widows.

4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

5 The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.

6 But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

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From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”

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Proverbs 31:28

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Luke 2:51

Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

John 19:26

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

John 19:27

Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.

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Matthew 15:5

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Matthew 15:6

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Mark 7:12

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Mark 7:13

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And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’

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

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“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

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