mothers and daughters

⁴⁴Behold, all who speak a common proverb will take this up against you, saying: ‘Like the mother, so also is her daughter.’

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.

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

²⁸Her sons rose up and predicted great happiness; her husband rose up and praised her.

⁵calling to mind the same faith, which is in you unfeigned, which also first dwelt in your grandmother, Lois, and in your mother, Eunice, and also, I am certain, in you.

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.

⁵³A father will be divided against a son, and a son against his father; a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

²⁰Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.

⁸Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother, ⁹so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.

²⁵Strength and elegance are her clothing, and she will laugh in the final days. ²⁶She has opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. ²⁷She has considered the paths of her household, and she has not eaten her bread in idleness. ²⁸Her sons rose up and predicted great happiness; her husband rose up and praised her. ²⁹Many daughters have gathered together riches; you have surpassed them all. ³⁰Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.

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.

¹³In the manner of one whom a mother caresses, so will I console you. And you will be consoled in Jerusalem.

³Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb.

²²Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.

²⁶Therefore, when Jesus had seen his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son.” ²⁷Next, he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that hour, the disciple accepted her as his own.