Respecting Your Elders

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →

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.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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.

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

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come! — read the full passage →

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

The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

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

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Here am I. — read the full passage →

The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; — read the full passage →

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

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.

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

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

Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

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

And it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

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.

But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; — 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. — read the full passage →

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.

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;

The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: — read the full passage →

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

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.

Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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 →

And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. — read the full passage →

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; Wherefore I held back, and durst not show you mine opinion.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.

But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

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

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water; — read the full passage →

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church.

Now Elihu had waited to speak unto Job, because they were elder than he.

Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

And he said unto them, Then render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lordof glory, with respect of persons.

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;

A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

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.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

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

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was threescore furlongs from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard: — read the full passage →

And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. — read the full passage →

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:

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

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 on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

Servants, bein subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.

And as they went on their way through the cities, they delivered them the decrees to keep which had been ordained of the apostles and elders that were at Jerusalem.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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.

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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.

knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth, the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

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 →

In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him.