20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
3 But he answered them,"Why do you also disregard the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4 For God said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’and ‘Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.’
8 If anyone does not take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
2 "Honor your father and mother." This is a very important commandment with a promise:
3 "So that it may go well for you, and that you may have a long life on the earth."
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
2 "Honor your father and mother." This is a very important commandment with a promise:
3 "So that it may go well for you, and that you may have a long life on the earth."
4 Fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
1 You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,
4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents, for this is pleasing in God's sight.
3 But he answered them,"Why do you also disregard the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4 For God said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’and ‘Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.’
5 But you say ‘Whoever tells his father or his mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me has been given to God,"
6 does not have to honor his father.’Because of your tradition, then, you have revoked the authority of God's word.