Deuteronomy 21:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
  • Lev 21:9 : 9 "'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire.
  • Deut 8:5 : 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. 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, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 One who spares the rod hates his son, But one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 A fool despises his father's correction, But he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
  • Prov 19:18 : 18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; Don't be a willing party to his death.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.
  • Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. 14 Punish him with the rod, And save his soul from Sheol.
  • Prov 28:24 : 24 Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; Yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.
  • Isa 1:2 : 2 Hear, heavens, And listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have 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], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Ezek 24:13 : 13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
  • Amos 4:11-12 : 11 "I have overthrown some of you, As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; Yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. 12 "Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, Israel.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."
  • Heb 12:9-9 : 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? 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
  • Exod 21:15 : 15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

    20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

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    18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; Don't be a willing party to his death.

    19 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, For if you rescue him, you must do it again.

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    26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother, Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

    27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, You will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • 24 One who spares the rod hates his son, But one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

  • 25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Heb 12:5-8
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    5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;

    6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives."

    7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

    8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

  • 20 A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.

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    15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;

    16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:

    17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

  • 14 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

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    13 Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

    14 Punish him with the rod, And save his soul from Sheol.

  • 15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

  • 17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, Neither be weary of his reproof:

    12 For whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; Even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

  • 1 A wise son listens to his father's instruction, But a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

  • 11 There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.

  • 10 If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,

  • 8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:

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

  • 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; Yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

  • 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.

  • 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your mother when she is old.

  • 21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

  • 31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

  • 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

  • 4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

  • 17 The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.

  • 21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

  • 21 He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.

  • 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

  • 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.

  • 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;

  • 15 but if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh be against you, as it was against your fathers.

  • 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

  • 11 He said, "A certain man had two sons.

  • 16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.

  • 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.

  • 2 A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, And shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

  • 5 A fool despises his father's correction, But he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

  • 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; For when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.