Exodus 20:12
12 a“Honor your father and your mother, bthat your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.Deuteronomy 27:16
16 c“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’Proverbs 20:20
20 dIf one curses his father or his mother,ehis lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Jeremiah 35:18
18But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you,Ezekiel 22:7
7Father and mother fare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner gsuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow hare wronged in you.Malachi 1:6
The Priests’ Polluted Offerings
6 i“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am ja father, where is my honor? And if I am ka master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. lBut you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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