100 Bible Verses about Taking Care of Parents (KJV)

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

1 Timothy 5:8 KJV

⁸But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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1 Timothy 5:4 KJV

⁴But 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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Exodus 20:12 KJV

¹²Honour 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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Proverbs 23:22 KJV

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

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Ephesians 6:2 KJV

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

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Matthew 15:4-6 KJV

⁴For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. ⁵But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; ⁶And 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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Ephesians 6:1-3 KJV

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John 19:26-27 KJV

²⁶When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! ²⁷Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

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Proverbs 30:17 KJV

¹⁷The 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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Ephesians 6:2-3 KJV

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

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Proverbs 19:26 KJV

²⁶He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

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Colossians 3:20 KJV

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

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Mark 7:10-12 KJV

¹⁰For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: ¹¹But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. ¹²And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

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Deuteronomy 5:16 KJV

¹⁶Honour 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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Matthew 19:19 KJV

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

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Ephesians 6:1-4 KJV

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

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Leviticus 19:32 KJV

³²Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

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Leviticus 19:3 KJV

³Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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Ephesians 6:4 KJV

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

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2 Corinthians 12:14 KJV

¹⁴Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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Mark 7:11-13 KJV

¹¹But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. ¹²And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; ¹³Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

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Hebrews 13:5 KJV

⁵Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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1 John 3:17-18 KJV

¹⁷But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? ¹⁸My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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Acts 5:29 KJV

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

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1 Timothy 5:3-4 KJV

³Honour widows that are widows indeed. ⁴But 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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James 1:27 KJV

²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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Ephesians 5:33 KJV

³³Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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Luke 2:51 KJV

⁵¹And 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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1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV

¹³There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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Proverbs 22:6 KJV

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

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1 Timothy 5:16 KJV

¹⁶If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

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1 Timothy 3:4 KJV

⁴One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

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Mark 7:10-13 KJV

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Luke 18:20 KJV

²⁰Thou 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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Matthew 15:4 KJV

⁴For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

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Matthew 7:7-8 KJV

⁷Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ⁸For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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1 Corinthians 7:14 KJV

¹⁴For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

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Proverbs 23:13-14 KJV

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

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Ephesians 6:1 KJV

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

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Luke 6:27-35 KJV

²⁷But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, ²⁸Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. ²⁹And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. ³⁰Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh …

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Proverbs 20:20 KJV

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

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Deuteronomy 27:16 KJV

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

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Proverbs 15:20 KJV

²⁰A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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John 19:25-27 KJV

²⁵Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! ²⁷Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

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Genesis 47:12 KJV

¹²And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

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1 Corinthians 6:9-11 KJV

⁹Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, ¹⁰Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are …

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Romans 5:8 KJV

⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Malachi 4:6 KJV

⁶And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 KJV

¹³But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. ¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. ¹⁵For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them …

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Matthew 5:17 KJV

¹⁷Think 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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1 Timothy 5:3 KJV

³Honour widows that are widows indeed.

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Matthew 12:30 KJV

³⁰He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

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Hosea 4:6 KJV

⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

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Genesis 2:24 KJV

²⁴Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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1 Peter 3:7 KJV

⁷Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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Hebrews 13:16 KJV

¹⁶But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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Colossians 3:21 KJV

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

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Philippians 4:19 KJV

¹⁹But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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Exodus 21:17 KJV

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

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1 Timothy 5:17 KJV

¹⁷Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

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Philippians 4:13 KJV

¹³I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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Romans 12:10 KJV

¹⁰Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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Mark 13:20 KJV

²⁰And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.

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Proverbs 22:15 KJV

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

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1 John 4:1 KJV

¹Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV

⁹And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

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Romans 7:2 KJV

²For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

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John 14:6 KJV

⁶Jesus 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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Proverbs 13:24 KJV

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

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Revelation 2:4 KJV

⁴Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹The 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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1 John 3:16-18 KJV

¹⁶Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? ¹⁸My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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Romans 12:17-21 KJV

¹⁷Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. ¹⁸If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. ¹⁹Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. ²⁰Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, …

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Romans 1:30 KJV

³⁰Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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Proverbs 29:17 KJV

¹⁷Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

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Proverbs 28:24 KJV

²⁴Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

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Proverbs 1:8 KJV

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

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1 Corinthians 14:33 KJV

³³For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

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Matthew 10:8 KJV

⁸Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

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Proverbs 31:28 KJV

²⁸Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

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Psalm 103:13 KJV

¹³Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

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Deuteronomy 21:18-21 KJV

¹⁸If 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: ¹⁹Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; ²⁰And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn …

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Leviticus 20:9 KJV

⁹For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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Exodus 21:15 KJV

¹⁵And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

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Genesis 28:14 KJV

¹⁴And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Acts 1:1 KJV

¹The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

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Matthew 5:18 KJV

¹⁸For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

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Jeremiah 4:23-27 KJV

²³I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. ²⁴I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. ²⁵I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. ²⁶I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were …

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Proverbs 6:20-23 KJV

²⁰My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ²¹Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. ²²When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. ²³For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction …

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1 Timothy 5:1-12 KJV

¹Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; ²The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. ³Honour widows that are widows indeed. ⁴But 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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1 Thessalonians 4:4 KJV

⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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Ephesians 6:1-24 KJV

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Acts 2:38 KJV

³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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Mark 13:9 KJV

⁹But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

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Proverbs 10:1 KJV

¹The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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Deuteronomy 4:9-10 KJV

⁹Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; ¹⁰Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the …

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1 John 4:20 KJV

²⁰If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

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John 15:26 KJV

²⁶But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

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Luke 7:12-15 KJV

¹²Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. ¹³And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. ¹⁴And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. …

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