Topic
Grown Children Treating Their Parents
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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
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.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.
For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →
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.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; — read the full passage →
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), — read the full passage →
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →
For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.
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.
For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.
The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.
Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.
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.
The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →
Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward. — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; — read the full passage →
And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. — read the full passage →
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Honor widows that are widows indeed. — read the full passage →
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →
Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
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; — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. — read the full passage →
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.
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.
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;
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:
Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should lay his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: — read the full passage →
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children; — read the full passage →
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →
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