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

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

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

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

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:

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.

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

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. {piety: or, kindness}

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;

Wherefore the law {is} holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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. {the valley: or, the brook}

He looketh upon men, and {if any} say, I have sinned, and perverted {that which was} right, and it profited me not; {He...: or, He shall look upon men, and say}

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.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Who {is} wise, and he shall understand these {things}? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD {are} right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

{There is} a generation {that} curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

Esther had not {yet} shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

The statutes of the LORD {are} right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD {is} pure, enlightening the eyes.

That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed {the flock} in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here {am I}.

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments {are} right, and {that} thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. {right: Heb. righteousness}

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.

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: {true...: Heb. laws of truth}

And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. {trench: or, place of the carriage} {fight: or, battle array, or, place of fight}

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.

Therefore I esteem all {thy} precepts {concerning} all {things to be} right; {and} I hate every false way.

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

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

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. {long...: Heb. years of life}

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.

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. {piety: or, kindness}

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

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

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

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew {it}.

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

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected {us}, and we gave {them} reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and {then} to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

Esther had not {yet} shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

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:

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed {the flock} in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here {am I}.

And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women {is} upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

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

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

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.

And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.

And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. {trench: or, place of the carriage} {fight: or, battle array, or, place of fight}

And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.