Respecting Your Parents

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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 →

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.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

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

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

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

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

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) — read the full passage →

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

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.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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:

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: — read the full passage →

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

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; — read the full passage →

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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.

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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 →

Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

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.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →

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

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

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 →

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.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

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

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

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: — read the full passage →

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; — read the full passage →

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

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. — read the full passage →

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. — read the full passage →

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.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. — read the full passage →

But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; — read the full passage →

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee. — read the full passage →

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.