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Obeying Parents
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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.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon 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:
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.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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.
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. — 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.
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
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.
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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 God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
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.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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. — read the full passage →
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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 →
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. — read the full passage →
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. — read the full passage →
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: — 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.
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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:
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
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.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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.
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. — read the full passage →
And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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