Turning One Parent Away From Another

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.