“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
“I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord. “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
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.
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.
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.
I have heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the Lord my God.
O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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