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Exodus 20:12
“ Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged on the land which the Lord your God gives you.
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Deuteronomy 27:16
‘ Cursed is one who treats his father or mother contemptuously.’ And all the people shall say,‘ Amen.’
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Jeremiah 35:18
Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites,“ This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says:‘ Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, kept all his commands, and done according to all that he commanded you,
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Proverbs 20:20
He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness.
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Matthew 15:4-6
For God said,‘ Honor your father and mother,’ and,‘ The one who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’But you say,‘ Whoever says to his father or mother,“ Whatever I have that would help you has been given to God,”he is not to honor his father or mother.’ And by this you have invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
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Romans 13:7
Pay to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.
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Mark 7:9-13
He was also saying to them,“ You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.For Moses said,‘ Honor your father and your mother’; and,‘ The one who speaks evil of father or mother, is certainly to be put to death’;but you say,‘ If a person says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban( that is, given to God),’you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother;thereby invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”
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Malachi 1:6
“ ‘ A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of armies to you, the priests who despise My name! But you say,‘ How have we despised Your name?’
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Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother with contempt among you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst; they have oppressed the orphan and the widow among you.