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Disobeying Parents
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“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
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 chasten him, will not listen to them; — read the full passage →
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
If you love me, keep my commandments.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ — read the full passage →
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →
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 chasten him, will not listen to them;
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”
Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
For John was not yet thrown into prison.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →
“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’
The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
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