Taking Care Of Parents

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: — read the full passage →

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.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour 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 honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

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

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

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.

But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. — read the full passage →

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? — read the full passage →

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

Honour widows that are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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

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.

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

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; 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 in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, — read the full passage →

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall 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 obscure 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.

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. — read the full passage →

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

But God commendeth his 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 I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. — read the full passage →

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 mankind, — read the full passage →

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

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 will also 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 to anger, lest they be discouraged.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

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

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

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

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the 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 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:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

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

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have 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 the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

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 →

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.

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 →

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, 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 thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

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

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

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, 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 heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; — 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, how can he 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 testify of me: