20 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents
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Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),
"For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.
"Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
For although Moses said, Honor your father and mother, and Let him who curses father or mother suffer death,
And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.
is in no way bound to honor his father. Thus do you make void the word of God by your tradition!
but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.
Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with reverence and humility, in singleness of heart as if to Christ himself;
the older women as mothers, the younger women as sisters in all purity.
As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another.
Render to all their dues; taxes to whom taxes, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, and homage to whom homage is due.
Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,
Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents.
"You know the commandments. "Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother."
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