Respecting Your Elders

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

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.”

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.

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

“‘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.

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

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

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

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

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

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

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

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

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 →

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.” — read the full passage →

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

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

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

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

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

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.

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

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

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

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

“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.

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 →

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 →

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

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

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

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,

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed. — read the full passage →

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.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

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

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

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.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

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

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;

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 →

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. — read the full passage →

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

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 →

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

“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!”

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — 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 →

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

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

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

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

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.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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

He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

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

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

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed. — read the full passage →

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

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on 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 unstained by the world.

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 →

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

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.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. — read the full passage →

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. — read the full passage →

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

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?

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

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

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.

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

neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?”

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

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 desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

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 →

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”