Proverbs 6:20

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

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

“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.

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

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

“ ‘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.

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

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

“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.

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 my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

“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.’

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.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing 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?

She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.

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,

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

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

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

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.

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.

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

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

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

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

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

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

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

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.

Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

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

His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. Yahweh will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.

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,

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

She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.”

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;

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

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

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

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

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

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the revelation: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:

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

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.

“Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into Yahweh’s house, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.”

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

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

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