HONOR YOUR PARENTS

GOD TAKES IT SERIOUSLY

Ex. 20:12    “honor thy father and thy mother”
Ex. 21:15    “he that smiteth his father or his mother” 
Ex. 21:17    “he that curseth his father or his mother” 
Lev. 19:3    “ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father”
Deut. 5:16  “honor thy father and thy mother as the
                    LORD thy God hath commanded thee”Deut. 21:18-21 “If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto 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. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.”
Prov. 1:8    “forsake not the law of thy mother”
Prov. 6:20    “keep thy father’s commandment, 
                      and forsake not the law of thy mother”
Prov. 19:26   “he that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his
                        mother, is a son that causeth shame”
Prov. 20:20   “whoso curseth his father or his mother, 
                       his lamp shall be put out”
Prov. 23:22   “hearken unto thy father that begat thee, 
                        and despise not thy mother when she is old”
Prov. 28:24   “whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, 
                        it is no transgression, the same is the companion of 
                        a destroyer.”
Prov. 30:11   “...generation that curseth their father, 
                       and doth not bless their mother”
Prov. 30:17   “the eye that mocketh at his father, 
                        and despiseth to obey his mother...”
Matt. 15:4    “...for God commanded, saying, Honour thy father 
                       and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother,
                       let him die the death.”
Rom. 1:30    “disobedient to parents...those who commit such 
                      things are worthy of death”
Eph. 6:1-2    “Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first 
                      commandment with promise;) that it may be well 
                      with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.” 
1 Tim. 1:9    “murderers of fathers and mothers”
2 Tim. 3:3    “perilous times...men shall be lovers of their own 
                      selves....disobedient to parents”