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Obeying Your Parents
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the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
`If ye love me, my commands keep,
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →
the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.
A wise son--the instruction of a father, And a scorner--he hath not heard rebuke.
An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.
honour thy father and mother, — read the full passage →
And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;
`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →
And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.
`Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.
He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.
Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> He who is making light of his father and his mother, --and all the people have said, Amen.
he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,
`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them-- — read the full passage →
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,
`And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
honour thy father and mother,
Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.
which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
`For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood <FI>is<Fi> on him.
every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,
and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.
Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,
`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;
that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,
and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →
for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I--I do trust in Thee!
the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.
Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,
`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →
And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.
Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.
The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;
And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,
for not the hearers of the law <FI>are<Fi> righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --
evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →
Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.
and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;
A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,
for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.
A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.
for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;
For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,
honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'
but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.
and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
for every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'
`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them--
Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,
ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;
<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →
and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,
and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;
`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'
and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;
`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →
in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;
And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,
And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →
To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →
he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.
and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'
a two-souled man <FI>is<Fi> unstable in all his ways.
for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, — read the full passage →
lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →
And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son <FI>is<Fi> an affliction to his mother.
`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.
No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.
for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
who shall suffer justice--destruction age-during--from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,
And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek, — read the full passage →
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