Deuteronomy 21:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ 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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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God.
  • Lev 21:9 : 9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
  • Deut 8:5 : 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 ¶ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 ¶ A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
  • Prov 19:18 : 18 ¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 ¶ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 ¶ Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
  • Prov 23:13-14 : 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.
  • Prov 28:24 : 24 ¶ Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, [It is] no transgression; the same [is] the companion of a destroyer.
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 ¶ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 [There is] a generation [that] curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 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.
  • Isa 1:2 : 2 ¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
  • Jer 31:18 : 18 ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
  • Ezek 24:13 : 13 In thy filthiness [is] lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
  • Amos 4:11-12 : 11 I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 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.
  • Heb 12:9-9 : 9 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? 10 For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
  • Exod 21:15 : 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

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