Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.”
and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns.
Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us? Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.”
They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”
“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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