grown children treating their parents
What does the Bible say about grown children treating their parents? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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22Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.
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.
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.
20Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
1If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. 2And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. 3And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. 4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. 5Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. 6Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.
6The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.
16Cursed be he who does not honor his father and mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.
4And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.
24He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.
12Therefore, all things whatsoever that you wish that men would do to you, do so also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.
18Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.
8But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.
20Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
21Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.