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 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.
Ephesians 6:1-3
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Children and Parents(A)
6 Children, (B)obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 (C)“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
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Exodus 20:8
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8 (A)“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Hebrews 12:9
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9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to (A)the Father of spirits and live?
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Ezekiel 22:7-8
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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. 8 You have despised My holy things and (C)profaned My Sabbaths.
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- Ezekiel 22:7 Lit. orphan
Proverbs 30:17
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17 (A)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.
Leviticus 11:44
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44 For I am the Lord your (A)God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and (B)you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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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
Isaiah 58:13
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13 “If (A)you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
Proverbs 30:11
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11 There is a generation that curses its (A)father,
And does not bless its mother.
Proverbs 23:22
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22 (A)Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
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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