5.1 Honor your parents

God’s people must hold their parents in high regard and not allow any evil thought or practice to affect this most basic social relationship.

Leviticus 19.3

“Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father…”

 Exodus 21.17

“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.”

 Mark 7.9-13

 Leviticus 20.9

“For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.”

Deuteronomy 21.18-21

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.”

 Exodus 21.15

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.”

 This series of In the Gates provides the Scriptural support for the Ten Commandments and their supporting statutes, rules, and precepts. A complete version of this series is available as The Law of God.