children obeying their parents
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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.
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.
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.
4‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.’
12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
6The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.
18If a man produces a disobedient and reckless son, who will not listen to the orders of his father or mother, and, having been corrected, shows contempt for obedience: 19they shall take him and lead him to the elders of the city and to the gate of judgment. 20And they shall say to them: ‘This our son is reckless and disobedient. He shows contempt when listening to our admonitions. He occupies himself with carousing, and self-indulgence, and feasting.’ 21Then the people of the city shall stone him to death. And he shall die, so that you may take away the evil from your midst. And so may all of Israel, upon hearing it, be very afraid.
24He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.
21Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.
1A wise son is the doctrine of his father. But he who ridicules does not listen when he is reproved. 2From the fruit of his own mouth, a man shall be satisfied with good things. But the soul of betrayers is iniquity. 3Whoever guards his mouth guards his soul. But whoever gives no consideration to his speech shall experience misfortunes. 4The lazy one is willing and then not willing. But the soul of he who labors shall be made fat. 5The just shall detest a lying word. But the impious confound and will be confounded. 6Justice guards the way of the innocent. But impiety undermines the sinner.
2Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise:
15Whoever strikes his 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.
16Honor your father and mother, just as the Lord your God has instructed you, so that you may live a long time, and so that it may be well with you in the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
17The eye of one who mocks his father and who despises the childbearing of his mother, let the ravens of the torrent tear it out, and let the sons of the eagles consume it.