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24 Anyone who robs father or mother
    and says, “That is no crime,”
    is partner to a thug.(A)

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26 Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother
    are children who cause shame and bring reproach.

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One who is slack in work
    is close kin to a vandal.(A)

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For God said,[a] ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’(A) But you say that whoever tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,’[b] then that person need not honor the father.[c](B) So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word[d] of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.4 Other ancient authorities read commanded, saying
  2. 15.5 Or is an offering
  3. 15.5 Other ancient authorities add or the mother
  4. 15.6 Other ancient authorities read law or commandment

Those who keep the law are wise children,
    but companions of gluttons shame their parents.(A)

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He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and even spoke it in my hearing—that silver is in my possession; I took it, but now I will return it to you.”[a] And his mother said, “May my son be blessed by the Lord!”

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Footnotes

  1. 17.2 The words but now I will return it to you are transposed from the end of 17.3 in Heb

20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
    but the companion of fools suffers harm.(A)

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