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Exodus 20:12
“ Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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Leviticus 19:3
“‘ Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
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Deuteronomy 27:16
“ Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.” Then all the people shall say,“ Amen!”
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Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.“ Honor your father and mother”— which is the first commandment with a promise—“ so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”
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Proverbs 19:18
Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to their death.
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Isaiah 1:2
Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken:“ I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
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Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.
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Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
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Amos 4:11-12
“ I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.“ Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.”
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Deuteronomy 8:5
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
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Jeremiah 31:18
“ I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:‘ You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the Lord my God.
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Proverbs 28:24
Whoever robs their father or mother and says,“ It’s not wrong,” is partner to one who destroys.
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Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
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Proverbs 23:13-14
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.Punish them with the rod and save them from death.
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Proverbs 13:24
Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
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Proverbs 29:17
Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire.
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2 Samuel 7 14
I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.
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Ezekiel 24:13
“‘ Now your impurity is lewdness. Because I tried to cleanse you but you would not be cleansed from your impurity, you will not be clean again until my wrath against you has subsided.
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Isaiah 1:5
Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.
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Proverbs 15:5
A fool spurns a parent’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.
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Jeremiah 5:3
Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
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Exodus 21:17
“ Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.
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Proverbs 30:11
“ There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers;
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Leviticus 21:9
“‘ If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.
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Hebrews 12:9-11
Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
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Proverbs 30:17
“ The eye that mocks a father, that scorns an aged mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures.
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Proverbs 20:20
If someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.
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Exodus 21:15
“ Anyone who attacks their father or mother is to be put to death.