Taking Care of Parents

Everyday topics

Verses

10 references
  1. If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
  2. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
  3. Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  4. Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  5. But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), …
  6. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
  7. Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
  8. But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
  9. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. …
  10. See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.