honoring your parents
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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.
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.
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. 4And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord. 5Servants, be obedient to your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ. 6Do not serve only when seen, as if to please men, but act as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.
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.
9Whoever curses his father or mother shall die a death; he has cursed his father and mother. So let his blood be upon him.
3Let each one fear his father and his mother. Observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
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.
20Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
20Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
2Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise:
22Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.
4But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let her first learn to manage her own household, and to fulfill, in turn, her own obligation to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.
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.
15Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.