Topic
Taking Care Of Parents
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But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
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.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold, thy son! — 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.
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), — read the full passage →
He that doeth violence to 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 in the Lord.
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: — read the full passage →
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.
Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
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.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
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 yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God; — read the full passage →
Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.
But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? — read the full passage →
But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.
Honor widows that are widows indeed. — read the full passage →
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.
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
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.
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death: — read the full passage →
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and mother.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: — 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.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, — read the full passage →
Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
These things therefore the soldiers did. 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 →
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →
Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
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.
And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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;
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
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.
Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect’s sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husbandalso, and he praiseth her, saying:
He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.
Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give.
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; — read the full passage →
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. — read the full passage →
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →
Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.
Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →
that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, there was carried out one that was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. — read the full passage →
But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in synagogues shall ye be beaten; and before governors and kings shall ye stand for my sake, for a testimony unto them.
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children; — read the full passage →
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:
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