Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Fear

Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Exodus 21:15
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.
Deuteronomy 21:18
“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,
Deuteronomy 27:16
‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s command,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curses its father
and does not bless its mother.
Ezekiel 22:7
Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
Malachi 1:6
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”
Matthew 15:4
For God said:

Honor your father and your mother; and,
The one who speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had natural fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?

General references

Genesis 28:7
And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to Paddan-aram.
Exodus 20:8
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy:
Leviticus 18:2
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 23:3
“Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you live.
Deuteronomy 27:16
‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

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