DEVOTIONS AND SERMONS

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1. Honor your parents

Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 23:24-25
24 The father of a righteous man has great joy; he who has a wise son delights in him.
25 May your father and mother be glad; may she who gave you birth rejoice!


Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

2. Correction and punishment to children

a. By discipline

Proverbs 19:18
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.

Proverbs 23:13
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

b. By the rod

Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Proverbs 23:13-14
13 Do not withhold discipline 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 death.


Proverbs 29:15
The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

3. Discipline is must

Exodus 21:15
"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.

Exodus 21:17
"Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 21:21
Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 27:16
"Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

Proverbs 20:20
If a man curses his father or mother, his lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.

Proverbs 30:11
There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers;

Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures.

2 Timothy 3:2
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Mark 7:11
But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban' (that is, a gift devoted to God),