disobedient children

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.

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.

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.

⁶Let no one seduce you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God was sent upon the sons of unbelief.

⁹Whoever curses his father or mother shall die a death; he has cursed his father and mother. So let his blood be upon him.

²in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust.

¹⁷Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother shall die a death.

²⁴He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.

¹³Do not be willing to take away discipline from a child. For if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.

²Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,

⁶the wrath of God has overwhelmed the sons of unbelief.

¹⁵Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.

²³Therefore, it is like the sin of paganism to rebel. And it is like the crime of idolatry to refuse to obey. For this reason, therefore, because you have rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord has also rejected you from being king.”

¹⁷Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.

¹⁹For, just as through the disobedience of one man, many were established as sinners, so also through the obedience of one man, many shall be established as just.

⁹And he said to them: “You effectively nullify the precept of God, so that you may observe your own tradition. ¹⁰For Moses said: ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother, let him die a death.’

²³For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁴‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.’

¹⁴But if you will not listen to me, nor accomplish all of my commandments, ¹⁵if you despise my laws, and disdain my judgments, so that you do not accomplish those things which have been established by me, and so that you lead my covenant away into nullification, ¹⁶then I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with destitution, and burning heat, which will waste away your eyes, and consume your lives. In vain will you sow your seed, which will be devoured by your enemies.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him. ¹⁸Whoever believes in him is not judged. But whoever does not believe is already judged, because he does not believe in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. ¹⁹And this is the judgment: that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light. For their works were evil.

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;