Isaiah 45:10
Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'"
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 27:16 : 16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
- Mal 1:6 : 6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
- Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
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20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
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15 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?
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26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
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2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
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18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
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13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
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