20 Bible Verses about Not Honouring Parents
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And he shall not go near any dead person, nor shall he make himself unclean for his father or for his mother.
for even his father, mother, brother, or sister he will not make himself unclean {by their death}, because the separation to his God [is] on his head.
[There is] a generation [that] will curse its father, and its mother it will not bless.
He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished {in the midst of darkness}.
The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.
" 'If [there is] {anyone} who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother--his blood [is] upon him.
For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'
And {whoever strikes} his father or his mother will surely be put to death.
He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, [is] a child who causes shame and brings reproach.
'Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, 'Amen.'
They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.
For a son treats a father with contempt; a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; [the] enemies of a man [are] the men of his own house.
need not honor his father,' and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
But you say, 'If a man says to his father or to his mother, "Whatever {benefit you would have received} from me [is] corban" (that is, a gift [to God]),
The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.
The [one] saying of his father and of his mother, 'I have not regarded them,' and his brothers he [did] not acknowledge, and his children [he did] not know, but [rather] they observed your word, and your covenant they kept.
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- Honouring (24 instances)
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