‘Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

‘Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required,

And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law,

Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover.

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.

Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.

And her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened.

‘Truly I tell you,’ Jesus said to them,‘no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers
and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death.

His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’

And his disciples asked him “Rabbi who sinned this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

‘ Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus,‘but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents.

The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

‘We know he is our son,’ the parents answered, ‘and we know he was born blind.

His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.

(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)

That was why his parents said, ‘He is of age; ask him.’

Therefore his parents said “He is of age; ask him.”

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

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.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.

I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

For people will be lovers of self lovers of money proud arrogant, abusive disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,

and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,