Deuteronomy 21:18

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

“ ‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.

She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

“ ‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.