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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.

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

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.

²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord. ²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.

⁸Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,

¹³As a father is compassionate to his sons, so has the Lord been compassionate to those who fear him.

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.

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

⁶Sons of sons are the crown of old age. And the glory of sons is their fathers.

⁶And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart. ⁷And you shall explain them to your sons. And you shall meditate upon them sitting in your house, and walking on a journey, when lying down and when rising up.

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.

¹⁵The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.

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

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.

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.

¹⁴Behold, this is the third time I have prepared to come to you, and yet I will not be a burden to you. For I am seeking not the things that are yours, but you yourselves. And neither should the children store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

²²Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old. ²³Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding. ²⁴The father of the just exults in gladness; he who has conceived the wise will rejoice in him. ²⁵Let your father and your mother be joyful, and may she who conceived you exult.

⁶And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with anathema.

¹⁷Teach your son, and he will refresh you, and he will give delight to your soul.

⁷Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct? ⁸But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons. ⁹Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live? ¹⁰And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification. ¹¹Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.

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

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.