Parallel Verses

NET Bible

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

New American Standard Bible

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,

King James Version

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:

Holman Bible

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,

International Standard Version

"If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents, and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them,

A Conservative Version

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken to them,

American Standard Version

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;

Amplified

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or of his mother, and when they reprimand and discipline him, he will not listen to them,

Bible in Basic English

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

Darby Translation

If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them;

Julia Smith Translation

If there shall be to a man a son stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they chastised him, and he will not hear to them:

King James 2000

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Lexham Expanded Bible

"{If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son} [who] {does not listen to} the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey them,

Modern King James verseion

If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him he will not listen to them,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If any man have a son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them:

New Heart English Bible

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

The Emphasized Bible

When a man hath a son, rebellious and insulting, who will not hearken to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, - though they chastise him, yet will not hearken unto them,

Webster

If a man shall have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not hearken to them:

World English Bible

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

Youngs Literal Translation

When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If a man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

the voice
קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

or the voice
קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

of his mother
אם 
'em 
Usage: 220

Context Readings

A Rebellious Son

17 Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved wife as firstborn and give him the double portion of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father's procreative power -- to him should go the right of the firstborn. 18 If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail, 19 his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.



Cross References

Exodus 20:12

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Leviticus 19:3

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 21:15

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

Exodus 21:17

"Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

Leviticus 21:9

If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.

Deuteronomy 8:5

Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

2 Samuel 7:14

I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

Proverbs 1:8

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

Proverbs 13:24

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool rejects his father's discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

Proverbs 20:20

The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Proverbs 23:13-14

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 28:24

The one who robs his father and mother and says, "There is no transgression," is a companion to the one who destroys.

Proverbs 29:17

Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; he will bring you happiness.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother -- the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

Isaiah 1:2

Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the Lord speaks: "I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully, 'We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the Lord our God.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

Ezekiel 24:13

You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. I tried to cleanse you, but you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness until I have exhausted my anger on you.

Amos 4:11-12

"I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!

Ephesians 6:1-3

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

Hebrews 12:9-11

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

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