Respecting parents

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• Exodus 20:12

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

• Proverbs 1:8

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

• Ephesians 6:1–4

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. …

• Colossians 3:20

  Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

• Ephesians 6:1

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

• Exodus 21:17

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

• Deuteronomy 5:16

  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.

• Ephesians 6:4

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

• Proverbs 22:6

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

• Deuteronomy 21:18–21

  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: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. …

• Proverbs 13:24

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

• Proverbs 29:15

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

• Ephesians 6:1–3

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

• Proverbs 19:20

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

• Proverbs 23:22

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

• Luke 14:26

  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.

• Ephesians 6:2

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

• 1 Peter 2:17

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

• Leviticus 19:32

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

• Matthew 15:4

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

• Galatians 6:7

  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

• Hebrews 13:17

  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.

• Leviticus 19:3

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

• 1 John 2:1–29

  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. …

• Deuteronomy 27:16

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

• Proverbs 30:17

  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.

• Colossians 3:21

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

• Deuteronomy 4:10

  Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

• Proverbs 6:20

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

• Romans 13:1–7

  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. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: …

• Philippians 2:3

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

• Romans 13:7

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

• Ephesians 6:1–24

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. …

• Proverbs 10:1

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

• John 3:36

  He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

• Ephesians 5:33

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

• 1 Peter 5:5

  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.

• Acts 3:19–21

  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; And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13

  And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

• Proverbs 20:20

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