Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

"Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep My Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.

As for the eye that ridicules a father and despises obedience to a mother, may ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures eat it.

For God said: Honor your father and your mother; and, The one who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.

he does not have to honor his father.' In this way, you have revoked God's word because of your tradition.

honor your father and your mother; and love your neighbor as yourself.

For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.

You know the commandments: Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not defraud; honor your father and mother."

You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not bear false witness; honor your father and mother."

Honor your father and mother-- which is the first commandment with a promise--

All who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters to be worthy of all respect, so that God's name and His teaching will not be blasphemed.

And those who have believing masters should not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but should serve them better, since those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved. Teach and encourage these things.

Slaves are to be submissive to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back

or stealing, but demonstrating utter faithfulness, so that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in everything.

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the Emperor.

For it [brings] favor if, because of conscience toward God, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.

Then you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the LORD says: Israel is My firstborn son.

I told you: Let My son go so that he may worship Me, but you refused to let him go. Now I will kill your firstborn son!"

Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

Yet LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we all are the work of Your hands.

They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation. I will lead them to wadis [filled] with water by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel's Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

"Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, Your name be honored as holy.

"For if you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well.

But if you don't forgive people, your Father will not forgive your wrongdoing.

Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

"Why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things I say?

And if you address as Father the One who judges impartially based on each one's work, you are to conduct yourselves in reverence during this time of temporary residence.

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord!' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but [only] the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.

"Why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things I say?

You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am.

For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done for you.

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

"You, on the other hand, have turned from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have violated the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of Hosts.

I selected your house from the tribes of Israel to be priests, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave your house all the Israelite fire offerings.

"Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Although I said your family and your ancestral house would walk before Me forever, the LORD now says, "No longer!" I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disgraced.

A horrible, terrible thing has taken place in the land.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?

because both prophet and priest are ungodly, even in My house I have found their evil. [This is] the LORD's declaration.

Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they do not explain the difference between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons.

Hear this, priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, royal house! For the judgment applies to you because you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread out on Tabor.

Yet you ask, "For what reason?" Because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have acted treacherously against her, though she was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.

"If he hates and divorces [his wife]," says the LORD God of Israel, "he covers his garment with injustice," says the LORD of Hosts. Therefore, watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously.

"Since the days of your fathers, you have turned from My statutes; you have not kept [them]. Return to Me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of Hosts. But you ask: "How can we return?"

"Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me!" You ask: "How do we rob You?" "[By not making the payments] of 10 percent and the contributions.

"Your words against Me are harsh," says the LORD. Yet you ask: "What have we spoken against You?"

You have said: "It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?

Even if you wash with lye and use a great amount of soap, the stain of your guilt is still in front of Me. [This is] the Lord GOD's declaration.

But Ephraim says: "How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any crime in me that I can be punished for!"

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"