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, for this is pleasing to God. You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
Parents are to rear children without instilling anger.
A stern warning is given for those who refuse to take care of family. If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. The importance of the fifth commandment is seen in its far-reaching implications to other areas of our lives. The precepts of the fifth commandment, forms the transition of a relationship with God to a relationship with our fellowman as seen in the remainder of the commandments. God was to be honored by the parents as they sought a proper relationship with their children.