THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
and then those who act unjustly towards their parents (for righteousness requires that we honor those from whom we have received our existence)
Deuteronomy 27:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.
אָר֕וּר מַקְלֶ֥ה אָבִ֖יו וְאִמּ֑וֹ וְאָמַ֥ר כָּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Lev 19:3Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
- Ex 21:17He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.
- Deut 21:18If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:
- Deut 21:21The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.
- Ex 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.
- Lev 20:9He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.
- Ezek 22:7They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.
- Prov 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.