1. 1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
2. 1 Timothy 5:4
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
3. Exodus 20:12
“Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
4. Leviticus 19:32
“You shall stand up before the grey head and honour the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
5. Deuteronomy 5:16
“‘Honour your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
6. 1 Timothy 5:1
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,
7. Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
8. James 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
9. Ephesians 6:2-3
“Honour your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
10. Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
11. Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
12. Psalm 71:9
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
13. John 19:25-27
But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
14. Isaiah 46:3-4
“Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
15. Proverbs 20:20
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
16. Mark 7:10-13
For Moses said, ‘Honour your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)— then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
17. Isaiah 46:4
Even to your old age, I am he, and to grey hairs, I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
