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.Leviticus 19:3
3 cEvery one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and dyou shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.Deuteronomy 21:18-21
A Rebellious Son
18“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 eThen all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. fSo you shall purge the evil from your midst, gand all Israel shall hear, and fear.Deuteronomy 27:16
16 h“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’Proverbs 30:17
17 The eye that imocks a fatherand jscorns to obey a mother
will kbe picked out by lthe ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.
Ezekiel 22:7
7Father and mother mare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner nsuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow oare wronged in you.Ephesians 6:1-4
Children and Parents
1 pChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 q“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, rbut bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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