Thematic Bible: Who not to despise

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old. Verse ConceptsFathers, Responsibilities OfAdultsContemptAgingBeing A Dadethics, personalBeing A ParentChildren, Attitude to ParentsMaturity, PhysicalMothers, Responsibilities OfOld Age, Attitudes ToParentsSanctity Of LifeSuperiorityYouthAge DiscriminationRespect For Old PeopleFathers TeachingAttitude Towards Your MotherDo Not DespisePay Attention To People!MothersFathersmomsMothers Love For Her ChildrenMothers And SonsMotherhoodParents LoveRespecting ParentsAgeThe ElderlyLoving Your Parentsparenthoodhonour

And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them, And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven. Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. read more.
And whoever gives honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me: But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea. A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes. And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire. And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire. Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.