Disobedient Children
10 passages
- Ephesians 6:1–3
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
Read it in context - Proverbs 30:17
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
Read it in context - Exodus 21:17
Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Read it in context - Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
Read it in context - Proverbs 23:13–14
13Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 14Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
Read it in context - Matthew 15:4
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
Read it in context - Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Read it in context - Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Read it in context - Exodus 21:15
Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Read it in context - 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.
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