children being obedient
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20Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. 2Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: 3so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth. 4And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
4‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.’
4And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.
16Cursed be he who does not honor his father and mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.
10For Moses said: ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother, let him die a death.’
17Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother shall die a death.
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
6The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.