Grown Children Treating Their Parents

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

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

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go: and 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 bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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

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.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, 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 any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

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

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

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.

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, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened 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.

Honour 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 neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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.

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

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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.

Honour 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 the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

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.

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.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. — read the full passage →

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall 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 an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

He that wasteth 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 in thine heart: — read the full passage →

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. — read the full passage →

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things 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 was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Honour 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 carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, 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 thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and 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 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: — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

If any man come to me, and hate not his 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 know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that 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 in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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

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:

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: 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 gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, 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 dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: — read the full passage →

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; — 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 the Lord 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 the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →