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Mark 3:34-35

34 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers! 35 For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

Proverbs 20:7

A righteous man walks in integrity.
    Blessed are his children after him.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother,
    his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go,
    and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalms 103:17-18

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him,
    his righteousness to children’s children,
18 to those who keep his covenant,
    to those who remember to obey his precepts.

Proverbs 23:13-14

Don’t withhold correction from a child.
    If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
14 Punish him with the rod,
    and save his soul from Sheol.[a]

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who gave you life,
    and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Colossians 3:21

21 Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Colossians 3:20

20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-3

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” Deuteronomy 5:16

Psalm 127:3-5

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh.
    The fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
    so are the children of youth.
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.
    They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 30:17

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

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