Respecting Parents

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely 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.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

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 →

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

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 →

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“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.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

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 →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, — read the full passage →

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

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.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ — read the full passage →

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

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,

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →

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.

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. — read the full passage →

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; — read the full passage →

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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 →

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. — read the full passage →

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 →

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

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 your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror. — read the full passage →

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 →

“‘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.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →