Caring For Aging Parents

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: — read the full passage →

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

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: — read the full passage →

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

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

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. — read the full passage →

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Honour 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.

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

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

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

For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants 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 what is before thee: — read the full passage →

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

The light 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 hither to draw.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord 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 →