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6The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.
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.
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.
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.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.
24For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
4‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.’
14By reason of this grace, I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15from whom all paternity in heaven and on earth takes its name.
1A wise son gladdens the father. Yet truly, a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
15But if it seems evil to you that you would serve the Lord, a choice is given to you. Choose today what pleases you, and whom you ought to serve above all else, either the gods that your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
20A wise son gladdens the father. But the foolish man despises his mother.
8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
1A Canticle in steps: of David. Behold, how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to dwell in unity.
3Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb. 4Like arrows in the hand of the powerful, so are the sons of those who have been cast out. 5Blessed is the man who has filled his desire from these things. He will not be confounded when he speaks to his enemies at the gate.