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.


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Exodus 20 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
1 Corinthians 7 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Timothy 5 16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
Deuteronomy 25 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Deuteronomy 5 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Jeremiah 49 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Proverbs 23 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
1 Timothy 5 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.
1 Peter 3 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Ezra 9 12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Galatians 6 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Leviticus 21 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother.
1 Corinthians 7 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Ruth 4 15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Exodus 22 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Ezekiel 44 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Matthew 19 19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Isaiah 47 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Genesis 15 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
1 Timothy 5 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Jeremiah 29 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Ruth 1 12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Ephesians 6 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Deuteronomy 4 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
1 Timothy 5 11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
Leviticus 19 29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Psalms 45 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Deuteronomy 14 29 And the Levite, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Numbers 27 9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
Ezekiel 44 25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
Exodus 21 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Ezekiel 16 61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
2 Corinthians 12 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Isaiah 49 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Nehemiah 10 30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons:
Proverbs 23 25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Deuteronomy 11 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
1 Kings 14 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
Titus 2 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Romans 9 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Jeremiah 16 7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Numbers 12 12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
Deuteronomy 28 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
Hosea 9 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Matthew 12 50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Lamentations 5 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Deuteronomy 12 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
Mark 7 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Psalms 109 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Isaiah 49 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.