Taking Care Of Elderly Parents

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

`At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death; — read the full passage →

honour thy father and mother, — read the full passage →

A crown of beauty <FI>are<Fi> grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death; — read the full passage →

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

Jesus, therefore, having seen <FI>his<Fi> mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;' — read the full passage →

The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.

and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

Even to old age I <FI>am<Fi> He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.

Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

and as he came nigh to the gate of the city, then, lo, one dead was being carried forth, an only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a great multitude of the city was with her. — read the full passage →

and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father <FI>with<Fi> bread, according to the mouth of the infants.

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers.

Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

honour thy father and mother,

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

A generation <FI>is<Fi> , that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. — read the full passage →

honour widows who are really widows;

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine, — read the full passage →

for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death; — read the full passage →

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

With the very aged <FI>is<Fi> wisdom, And <FI>with<Fi> length of days understanding.

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body; — read the full passage →

but it is great gain--the piety with contentment; — read the full passage →

providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

And he said to them, `Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep; — read the full passage →

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

honour widows who are really widows; — read the full passage →

also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, --the things not fit--but rather thanksgiving;

As <FI>one<Fi> pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, — read the full passage →

Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand <FI>is<Fi> toward God to do <FI>it<Fi> .

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul, — read the full passage →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change. — read the full passage →

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

`Haste, and go up unto my father, then ye have said to him, Thus said Joseph thy son, God hath set me for lord to all Egypt; come down unto me, stay not, — read the full passage →

and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food, — read the full passage →

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray, — read the full passage →

and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?

so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die; — read the full passage →

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment; — read the full passage →

Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.

Precious in the eyes of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the death for His saints.

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; — read the full passage →

hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; — read the full passage →

that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger <FI>is<Fi> the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; — read the full passage →

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart, — read the full passage →

and as the days of Noah--so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man; — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

Whoso is lending <FI>to<Fi> Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

And Bath-Sheba cometh in unto king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, and the king riseth to meet her, and boweth himself to her, and sitteth on his throne, and placeth a throne for the mother of the king, and she sitteth at his right hand.

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

and if Christ hath not risen, then void <FI>is<Fi> our preaching, and void also your faith, — read the full passage →

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

so that the law, indeed, <FI>is<Fi> holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

who shall render to each according to his works;

wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I <FI>am<Fi> clear from the blood of all, — read the full passage →

`For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things: — read the full passage →

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, — read the full passage →