Meaning of 1 Timothy 5:8

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This is another verse I have been thinking about lately. About providing for family
Can someone explain this verse. What if you don’t get along with your parents and siblings?
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I don’t see it as having to do with “getting along” with people. It’s about accepting your family responsibilities, making sure they don’t go hungry, that they have a roof over their head, that they have clothes to wear, and so on. Even if you get don’t get along with your bossy sister or your communist uncle or your senile grandad, you’re not going to throw them out of the house in their hour of need and let them sleep in a cardboard box on the sidewalk.
 
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Honor your father and mother. Just as they helped us enter the world we must respect them as they age. This verse is a sign of responsibility. Personally liking them isn’t what is called upon, what is, is the act of service and the act of humility to help them in their need.

To partake in this humility and service is to life out the Gospel. Those who reject this reject their very faith by nature of rejecting the humanity and poverty of Christ
 
Charity begins at home. Not getting along does not exclude you from family obligations.
 
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