Proverbs 30:17

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

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—

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

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

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

“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.

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

“I will appoint over them four kinds,” says Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

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.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

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

Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

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

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.

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

The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.

“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”

I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

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.

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

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

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

“ ‘ “I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.

The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me.” ’

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

“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?’

But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

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

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

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?

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

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

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.

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

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

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

“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.

any kind of raven,

“ ‘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.

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,

Your dead bodies will be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there will be no one to frighten them away.

The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field.”

Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

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.

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.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

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.’ ”

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

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

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

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,

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.