Caring For Aging Parents

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: — read the full passage →

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borneby mefrom their birth, that have been carried from the womb; — read the full passage →

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Let his days be few; Andlet another take his office.

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. — read the full passage →

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.

So the last shall be first, and the first last.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), — read the full passage →

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee; — read the full passage →

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.

Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. — read the full passage →