20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.
3 "And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.
4 "For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;
2 Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),
3 that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
2 Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),
3 that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
4 And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.
4 but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in Gods sight.
3 "And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.
4 "For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;
5 but you say that whoever tells his father or mother, Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is dedicated to God,
6 is in no way bound to honor his father. Thus do you make void the word of God by your tradition!
1 But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come.
2 For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious,
3 without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal.
8 But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.