Would you like to give your Parents Joy?

Give Your Parents Joy

 

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

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

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, 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.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

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

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Exodus 21:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Luke 2:51 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Deuteronomy 27:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“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, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

Exodus 21:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

Ephesians 6:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Ephesians 6:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”