Colossians 3:20

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• Exodus 20:12
  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Ephesians 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.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 go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
• Proverbs 6:20
  My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
• Matthew 19:19
  Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
• Matthew 15:4-6
  ⁴ For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. ⁵ But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; ⁶ And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.⁴ For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ ⁵ But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ ⁶ he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
• Deuteronomy 27:16
  Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Leviticus 19:3
  Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
• Proverbs 30:17
  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.As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
• Proverbs 30:11
  There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
• Ephesians 5:24
  Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

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• Children
• Honoring parents