Taking Care of Parents
10 passages
- 1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Read it in context - Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Read it in context - 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.
Read it in context - Mark 7:11–13
11But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), 12he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother. 13Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
Read it in context - Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
Read it in context - Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Read it in context - Acts 5:29
But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
Read it in context - 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 - 2 Corinthians 12:14
See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
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