cursing your parents
What does the Bible say about cursing your parents? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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9Whoever curses his father or mother shall die a death; he has cursed his father and mother. So let his blood be upon him.
20Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
4‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.’
15Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.
17Whoever speaks evil of his 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.
16Cursed be he who does not honor his father and mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.
11There is a generation which curses their father, and which does not bless their mother.
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.
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.