Parents (2)

Honouring parents

Exodus 20:12 KJV 1900

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

See also Le 19:3; Pr 23:22; Mt 19:16–19; Eph 6:1–3; Col 3:20; 1 Ti 5:4

Dishonouring parents

2 Timothy 3:1–2 KJV 1900

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

See also Ex 21:15–17; Dt 21:18–21; Eze 22:7; Mt 15:1–9; Ro 1:28–32

Love between parents and children can be suppressed

Luke 21:16–17 KJV 1900

And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

See also Zec 13:2–3

Love for God must surpass love for parents

Luke 14:26 KJV 1900

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

See also Dt 33:8–11; Lk 18:28–30

Divine love surpasses parental love

Psalm 27:10 KJV 1900

When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the Lord will take me up.

The belief that children were punished for their parents’ sins

John 9:1–3 KJV 1900

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

See also Ex 20:5–6; Job 21:19–21; Eze 18:1–4

Parents caring for their children

2 Corinthians 12:14 KJV 1900

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

See also Pr 19:14; Pr 23:24–25; Heb 11:23

Children caring for their parents

1 Samuel 22:3–4 KJV 1900

And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me. And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.

See also Jos 2:8–20; Jos 6:22–23; Pr 17:6

Mourning for parents

Leviticus 21:1–2 KJV 1900

And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

See also Le 21:10–11; Nu 6:2–7; Dt 21:10–13; Eze 44:25

Parents and the marriage of their children

A man leaves his parents to marry his wife

Genesis 2:21–24 KJV 1900

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

See also Mt 19:3–6; Eph 5:25–33

Parents were responsible for vindicating their daughter’s reputation

Deuteronomy 22:13–19 KJV 1900

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

Sometimes parents jointly arranged their children’s marriages

Judges 14:1–3 KJV 1900

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.