Proverbs 23:22

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—

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

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

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

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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

“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.

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

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

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

“ ‘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.

“ ‘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.

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

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

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

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,

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

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

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

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.

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

“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.

The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

“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?’

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

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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?

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.”

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

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.

If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

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

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.

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.’ ”

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

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

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

‘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.

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