“"But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents." Observe the discretion of Paul; how often he urges men from human considerations. For he does not here lay down any great and lofty motive, but one that is easy to be understood: "to requite the…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on 1 Timothy 13
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4But 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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2The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
3Honour widows that are widows indeed.
— 1 Timothy 5:4 —
5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
6But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.