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Bible Verses About Family honor

This collection includes 50 passages about Family honor. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

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Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

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For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

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He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

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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.

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A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

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My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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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.

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He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

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Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

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Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

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And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

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For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

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Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

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A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

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If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

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And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

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Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

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Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

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Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

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A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

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That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

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Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house.

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For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

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He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

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Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

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For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

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