12 Honor your father and mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Children, as believers in the Lord, do what your parents tell you, for this is the right thing to do. 2 "Honor your father and mother." This is the first commandment that has a promise attached: 3 "that things may go well for you and you may live a long life on the earth."*

20 You children, always do what your parents tell you because this is what pleases the Lord.

22 Pay attention to your father, and don’t disregard your mother when she’s old.

26 A son who abuses his father and chases away his mother brings shame and disgrace.

20 Anyone who curses their father or mother will have their light put out and end in utter darkness.

4 For the Christian responsibility of a widow’s children or grandchildren is to do their duty for their own family, and repay their parents by helping them out. This is what pleases God.

6 Teach children the right way to live, and when they grow up they’ll go on doing so.

6 The commands I’m giving you today must stay in your minds. 7 You are to explain them carefully to your children and talk about them when you’re at home and when you’re traveling, when you lie down and when you get up.

8 My son, pay attention to your father’s instruction, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching. 9 They are a wreath of grace to decorate your head; they are pendants for your neck.

4 Fathers, don’t make your children mad, but look after them by disciplining them and instructing them about God.

21 You fathers, don’t make your children mad, so they won’t feel like giving up.

15 Discipline and correction provide wisdom, but a son left undisciplined is an embarrassment to his mother.

24 People who don’t discipline their children hate them. Those who love their children carefully discipline them.

7 Be patient as you experience God’s discipline because he is treating you as his children. What child doesn’t experience a father’s discipline?

3 Children certainly are a gift from the Lord, for a family is a blessing.*

4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of a young man.

5 Happy is the father who fills his quiver* with them! Such fathers will not be embarrassed when they confront their enemies at the city gate.*

6 Old people are proud of their grandchildren, and children are proud of their parents.

24 Children who do right make their fathers very happy; a wise son brings joy to his father.

1 Solomon’s proverbs.

A wise son makes his father happy, but a stupid son only brings his mother grief.

11 Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, would give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, would you give him a scorpion? 13 So if you, even though you are evil, still know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

8 But those who don’t look after their relatives, especially their own family, have denied their beliefs, and are worse than those who don’t believe.

15 But if you don’t want to worship the Lord, choose today who you want to worship! Is it going to be the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates? Or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you’re now living? But as for me and my family, we will worship the Lord!"

24 This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined* to his wife, and the two become one being.

16 Fathers are not to be executed because of their children, and children are not to be executed because of their fathers. Each person is to be executed because of their own sin.