Proverbs 15:20

“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?’

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

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

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

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.

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

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

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

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

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

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.

“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.

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

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

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

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.

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

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

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

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

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

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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?

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

“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.

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.’ ”

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.’ ”

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

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

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

Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’ ”

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

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

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.