Deuteronomy 27:16
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16 (A)‘Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.’
“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
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Leviticus 19:3
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3 (A)‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and (B)keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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Exodus 21:17
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17 “And (A)he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
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Ezekiel 22:7
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7 In you they have (A)made light of father and mother; in your midst they have (B)oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the [a]fatherless and the widow.
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- Ezekiel 22:7 Lit. orphan
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
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The Rebellious Son
18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. 20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; (A)so you shall put away the evil from among you, (B)and all Israel shall hear and fear.
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Exodus 20:12
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12 (A)“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be (B)long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Matthew 15:4-6
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4 For God commanded, saying, (A)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, (B)‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, (C)“Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father [a]or mother.’ Thus you have made the [b]commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
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- Matthew 15:6 NU omits or mother
- Matthew 15:6 NU word
Proverbs 30:11-17
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11 There is a generation that curses its (A)father,
And does not bless its mother.
12 There is a generation (B)that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
13 There is a generation—oh, how (C)lofty are their eyes!
And their eyelids are [a]lifted up.
14 (D)There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
And whose fangs are like knives,
(E)To devour the poor from off the earth,
And the needy from among men.
15 The leech has two daughters—
Give and Give!
There are three things that are never satisfied,
Four never say, “Enough!”:
16 (F)The[b] grave,
The barren womb,
The earth that is not satisfied with water—
And the fire never says, “Enough!”
17 (G)The eye that mocks his father,
And scorns obedience to his mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.
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- Proverbs 30:13 In arrogance
- Proverbs 30:16 Or Sheol
Leviticus 20:9
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9 ‘For (A)everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. (B)His blood shall be upon him.
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