14 Bible Verses about Honouring Parents
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"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
"'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'
You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.'"
You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.'"
"Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise),
except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person. However, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.
"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
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Leviticus 21:11He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.
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