Genesis 9:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then tooke Shem & Iapheth a garment, and put it vpon both their shoulders, and went backwarde, and couered the nakednesse of their father with their faces backwarde: so they sawe not their fathers nakednesse.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy dayes may be prolonged vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 Thou shalt rise vp before the horehead, and honour the person of the old man, and dread thy God: I am the Lorde.
  • Rom 13:7 : 7 Giue to all men therefore their duetie: tribute, to whome yee owe tribute: custome, to whom custome: feare, to whome feare: honour, to whom ye owe honour.
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, if a man be suddenly taken in any offence, ye which are spirituall, restore such one with the spirit of meekenes, considering thy selfe, least thou also be tempted.
  • 1 Tim 5:1 : 1 Rebuke not an Elder, but exhort him as a father, and the yonger men as brethren,
  • 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 The Elders that rule well, let them be had in double honour, specially they which labour in the worde and doctrine,
  • 1 Tim 5:19 : 19 Against an Elder receiue none accusation, but vnder two or three witnesses.
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honour all men: loue brotherly fellowship: feare God: honour the King.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 But aboue all thinges haue feruent loue among you: for loue shall couer the multitude of sinnes.

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