Some Scriptures From Proverbs

Proverbs 1:8, “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother…”

Proverbs 6:20, “My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother…”

Proverbs 10:1, “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” [The Hebrew word translated “heaviness” is “grief, heaviness, sorrow.”]

Proverbs 13:1, “A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.”

Proverbs 15:20, “A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.” [The Hebrew word translated “despiseth” means “to despise, regard with contempt.”]

Proverbs 17:25, “A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.”

Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father…”

Proverbs 19:26, “He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.”

Proverbs 19:27, “Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.”

Proverbs 20:20, “Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.”

Proverbs 23:22, “Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.” [The Hebrew word translated “hearken” has to idea of “to listen to, yield to, obey, be obedient…”]. The word “despise” has the meaning of “to despise, hold in contempt, hold as insignificant…”

Proverbs 30:11, “There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.”

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The horror of being disobedient to parents is shown by two catalogs of very horrible sins. In the midst of these lists is the sin of disobedience:

Romans 1:30, “Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents…”

2 Timothy 3:1-5, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

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The New Testament Scriptures Are Based on the Fifth Commandment

Exodus 20:12, “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

Ephesians 6:1-3, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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.”

Colossians 3:20, “Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”

Scriptures That Indicate Even Grown Children Are to Honor and Care For Their Parents

1 Timothy 5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Matthew 15:3-6, “But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.”

The Lord Jesus Christ Honored and Obeyed Joseph and Mary

Luke 2:51, “And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart."