20 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents
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honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise),
God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right;
Children, obey your parents at every point, for this pleases the Lord right well.
honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."
Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.
As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord.
Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor.
need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.
Fathers, avoid irritating your children, in case they get dispirited.
(When a widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn that the first duty of religion is to their own household, and that they should make some return to those who have brought them up. In God's sight this is an acceptable thing.)
Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;
Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;
Pay them all their respective dues, tribute to one, taxes to another, respect to this man, honour to that.
Never censure an older man harshly; appeal to him as a father. Treat younger men like brothers,
Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live?
defamers, loathed by God, outrageous, haughty, boastful, inventive in evil, disobedient to parents,
You know the commands: do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honour your father and mother."
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