Cross reference

Colossians 3:20

20 Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Exodus 20:12

12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Titus 2:9

9 Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;

Ephesians 6:1-3

1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

Ephesians 5:24

24 And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

Matthew 19:19

19 Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Philippians 4:18

18 I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 3:22

22 Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:

Hebrews 13:21

21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

Matthew 15:4-6

4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

Malachi 1:6

6 A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

Leviticus 19:3

3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

19 Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

20 And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.

21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

Deuteronomy 27:16

16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

Proverbs 6:20

20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

Proverbs 20:20

20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

Proverbs 30:11

11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

Ezekiel 22:7

7 In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

Genesis 28:7

7 And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;

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