But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents,(A) for this is pleasing to God.(B)

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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.(A) “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:3 Deut. 5:16

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’[a](A) and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’[b](B) But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’ they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:4 Exodus 20:12; Deut. 5:16
  2. Matthew 15:4 Exodus 21:17; Lev. 20:9

26 When Jesus saw his mother(A) there, and the disciple whom he loved(B) standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman,[a] here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:26 The Greek for Woman does not denote any disrespect.

12 Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.(A)

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This is good, and pleases(A) God our Savior,(B)

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11 But you say(A) that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)— 12 then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. 13 Thus you nullify the word of God(B) by your tradition(C) that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

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10 You shall live in the region of Goshen(A) and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.(B) 11 I will provide for you there,(C) because five years of famine(D) are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’(E)

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51 Then he went down to Nazareth with them(A) and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.(B)

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28 Her children arise and call her blessed;
    her husband also, and he praises her:

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From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?” So he left them with the king of Moab,(A) and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.

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18 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over(A) after she had eaten enough.

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And Ruth the Moabite(A) said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain(B) behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.(C)

Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

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22 “I will rise up(A) against them,”
    declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will wipe out Babylon’s name(B) and survivors,
    her offspring and descendants,(C)
declares the Lord.

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19 He has no offspring(A) or descendants(B) among his people,
    no survivor(C) where once he lived.(D)

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14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons,(A) who rode on seventy donkeys.(B) He led Israel eight years.

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28 Jacob lived in Egypt(A) seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.(B)

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