Verse 22

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;
  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them, 19 Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say to 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. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he may die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
  • John 19:26-27 : 26 When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, Woman, behold your son! 27 Then he said to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
  • Eph 6:1-2 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise;
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 You shall respect every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die. 5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; 6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.