What Does The Bible Say About?

Elderly Parents

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Deuteronomy 5:16

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Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Exodus 20:12

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Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

1 Timothy 5:8

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If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Peter 2:17

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Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

1 Timothy 5:16

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If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.

James 5:12

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Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.

Leviticus 19:32

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You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 20:9

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If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Ephesians 6:1

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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:2

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“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

Ephesians 6:2-3

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“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

Ephesians 6:3

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“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

Ephesians 6:4

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Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Malachi 1:6

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“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

Matthew 15:4

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For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

Matthew 23:23

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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Proverbs 28:24

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He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

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For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”

2 Timothy 3:2

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For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Colossians 3:20

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Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

John 19:26

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When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

Matthew 19:19

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honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”

1 Timothy 5:4

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But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

2 Timothy 3:1

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But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

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If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown, and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 6:20-21

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In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?” then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7

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And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Hebrews 13:5

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Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

Mark 7:9-13

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He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother. Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”

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