respecting 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.
8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
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.
20Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
17Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother shall die a death.
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.
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.
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.
24He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.
15The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.
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.