1 Timothy 5:4
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4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and (A)to repay their parents; for this is [a]good and acceptable before God.
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- 1 Timothy 5:4 NU, M omit good and
Ephesians 6:1-3
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Children and Parents(A)
6 Children, (B)obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 (C)“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
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Matthew 15:4-6
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4 For God commanded, saying, (A)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, (B)‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, (C)“Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father [a]or mother.’ Thus you have made the [b]commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
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- Matthew 15:6 NU omits or mother
- Matthew 15:6 NU word
John 19:26-27
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26 When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and (A)the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, (B)“Woman, behold your son!” 27 Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her (C)to his own home.
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1 Timothy 2:3
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3 For this is (A)good and acceptable in the sight (B)of God our Savior,
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Mark 7:11-13
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11 But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, (A)“Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban”—’ (that is, a gift to God), 12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, 13 making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
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Genesis 47:12
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12 Then Joseph provided (A)his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number in their families.
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Genesis 45:10-11
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10 (A)You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your children, your children’s children, your flocks and your herds, and all that you have. 11 There I will (B)provide for you, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty; for there are still five years of famine.” ’
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Luke 2:51
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Jesus Advances in Wisdom and Favor
51 Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was [a]subject to them, but His mother (A)kept all these things in her heart.
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Proverbs 31:28
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28 Her children rise up and call her blessed;
Her husband also, and he praises her:
1 Samuel 22:3-4
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3 Then David went from there to Mizpah of (A)Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother come here with you, till I know what God will do for me.” 4 So he brought them before the king of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
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Ruth 2:18
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18 Then she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to her (A)what she had kept back after she had been satisfied.
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Ruth 2:2
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2 So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the (A)field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.”
And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”
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Isaiah 14:22
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Babylon Destroyed
22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And cut off from Babylon (A)the name and (B)remnant,
(C)And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.
Job 18:19
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19 (A)He has neither son nor posterity among his people,
Nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Judges 12:14
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14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who (A)rode on seventy young donkeys. He judged Israel eight years.
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Genesis 47:28
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28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the length of Jacob’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years.
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