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Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

• Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Exodus 21:15 Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
• Exodus 21:17 Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
• Leviticus 18:7 You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
• Leviticus 19:3 Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
• Leviticus 20:9 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.
• Deuteronomy 5:16 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.
• 1 Kings 19:20 So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
• Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
• Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

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