Exodus 21:15

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

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

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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

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

“ ‘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.

“ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

“ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

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

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

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

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

“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

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

“ ‘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.

But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

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

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

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

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

You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, or have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land in which you live as nomads.’

Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;’

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

“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.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ 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;

Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

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

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

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

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

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.

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

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

“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 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.

“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?’

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?