100 Bible Verses about Children Being Obedient

Here are 100 Bible verses about children being obedient, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Colossians 3:20 KJV

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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Ephesians 6:1-4 KJV

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. ² Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; ³ That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. ⁴ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Ephesians 6:1 KJV

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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Matthew 15:4 KJV

⁴ 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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Ephesians 6:4 KJV

⁴ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 27:16 KJV

¹⁶ Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Exodus 21:17 KJV

¹⁷ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

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Mark 7:10 KJV

¹⁰ For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

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Hebrews 13:4 KJV

⁴ Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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Proverbs 30:17 KJV

¹⁷ The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

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Proverbs 22:6 KJV

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Romans 5:19 KJV

¹⁹ For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

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John 14:15 KJV

¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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1 John 2:5 KJV

⁵ But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

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1 Peter 1:14 KJV

¹⁴ As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

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James 4:7 KJV

⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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1 Corinthians 14:34 KJV

³⁴ Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

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John 14:23 KJV

²³ Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

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Luke 11:28 KJV

²⁸ But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

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2 John 1:6 KJV

⁶ And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

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1 John 2:15 KJV

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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Philippians 2:3 KJV

³ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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Luke 2:51 KJV

⁵¹ And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

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Proverbs 13:24 KJV

²⁴ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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Proverbs 1:8 KJV

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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1 Samuel 15:22 KJV

²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

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Exodus 20:12 KJV

¹² Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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1 John 2:1-29 KJV

¹ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: ² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. ³ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴ He that saith, I know him, and …

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1 John 1:9 KJV

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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James 1:22 KJV

²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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Hebrews 13:17 KJV

¹⁷ Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

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Colossians 3:21 KJV

²¹ Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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Ephesians 6:1-3 KJV

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. ² Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; ³ That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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Acts 5:29 KJV

²⁹ Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

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Proverbs 6:20 KJV

²⁰ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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Exodus 19:5 KJV

⁵ Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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Philippians 2:8 KJV

⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

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Ephesians 6:2-3 KJV

² Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; ³ That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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1 Corinthians 6:18 KJV

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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Romans 1:5 KJV

⁵ By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

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Acts 5:32 KJV

³² And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

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1 John 5:3 KJV

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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1 John 2:15-17 KJV

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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Colossians 3:22 KJV

²² Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;

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Ephesians 6:2 KJV

² Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

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Romans 12:2 KJV

² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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John 14:21 KJV

²¹ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

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Isaiah 1:19 KJV

¹⁹ If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

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Joshua 5:6 KJV

⁶ For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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1 John 2:3-6 KJV

³ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴ He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ⁵ But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. ⁶ He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

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1 John 1:7 KJV

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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Titus 2:3-5 KJV

³ The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; ⁴ That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵ To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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2 Timothy 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

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1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 KJV

³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: ⁴ That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; ⁵ Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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Romans 12:1 KJV

¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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John 15:14 KJV

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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Psalm 119:60 KJV

⁶⁰ I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

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Psalm 68:6 KJV

⁶ God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

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Job 36:11 KJV

¹¹ If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

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Deuteronomy 28:1 KJV

¹ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

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James 1:25 KJV

²⁵ But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

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Hebrews 5:9 KJV

⁹ And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

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Ephesians 6:5 KJV

⁵ Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

⁵ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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1 Corinthians 15:58 KJV

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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Romans 13:1 KJV

¹ Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

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Romans 6:16 KJV

¹⁶ Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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John 14:6 KJV

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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Matthew 7:21 KJV

²¹ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

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Proverbs 23:22 KJV

²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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Psalm 19:8 KJV

⁸ The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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Deuteronomy 21:18 KJV

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

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1 Peter 1:2 KJV

² Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

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Hebrews 12:2 KJV

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Philemon 1:21 KJV

²¹ Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

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Romans 8:28 KJV

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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Romans 8:14 KJV

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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Romans 2:6-8 KJV

⁶ Who will render to every man according to his deeds: ⁷ To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: ⁸ But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

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Mark 10:19 KJV

¹⁹ 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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Matthew 23:23 KJV

²³ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

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Matthew 19:19 KJV

¹⁹ Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Matthew 5:17 KJV

¹⁷ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

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Proverbs 23:13-14 KJV

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. ¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

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Proverbs 22:15 KJV

¹⁵ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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Proverbs 20:20 KJV

²⁰ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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Proverbs 5:18-19 KJV

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹ Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

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Proverbs 3:1-2 KJV

¹ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: ² For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

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Deuteronomy 5:16 KJV

¹⁶ 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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Genesis 22:18 KJV

¹⁸ And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

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Hebrews 5:8 KJV

⁸ Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

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Philippians 2:12 KJV

¹² Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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Ephesians 6:3 KJV

³ That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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Ephesians 5:6 KJV

⁶ Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

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Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹ Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of …

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John 16:21 KJV

²¹ A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

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Jeremiah 7:23 KJV

²³ But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

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Proverbs 29:15 KJV

¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

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Proverbs 15:5 KJV

⁵ A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

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Proverbs 13:13 KJV

¹³ Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

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