disrespectful children
What does the Bible say about disrespectful children? 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.
20Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
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.
15Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.
1And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near. 2Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, 3without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, 4traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God, 5even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them.
4‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.’
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
24He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.
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.
17Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother shall die a death.
20Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
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.’
26For if we sin willingly, after receiving knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice remaining for sins,
1My little sons, this I write to you, so that you may not sin. But if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Just One. 2And he is the propitiation for our sins. And not only for our sins, but also for those of the whole world. 3And we can be sure that we have known him by this: if we observe his commandments. 4Whoever claims that he knows him, and yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the charity of God is perfected. And by this we know that we are in him. 6Whoever declares himself to remain in him, ought to walk just as he himself walked.