Leviticus 19:3

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Summary

Leviticus 19:3

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

Fear

General references

Deuteronomy 27:16

Bible References

Fear

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

And he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die for it.

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:

"'Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

My son, keep thy father's commandments, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

He that bringeth up an evil report upon the generation of his father and mother, is not worthy to be commended.

In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.

"Should not a son honour his father, and a servant his master? If I be now a father, where is mine honour? If I be the LORD, where am I feared? sayeth the LORD of Hosts, now, to you priests that despise my name. And if ye say, 'Wherein have we despised thy name?'

For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live?

General references

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone unto Mesopotamia:

"Remember the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it.

"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'I am the LORD your God.

Six days ye shall work, and the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, a holy feast: so that ye may do no work therein, for it is the Sabbath of the LORD, wheresoever ye dwell.

"'Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'