Deuteronomy 21:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ “If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or his mother and though they chasten him will not listen to them,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Now if someone has a consistently stubborn and rebellious child, who refuses to listen to their father and mother—even when the parents discipline him, he won’t listen to them—

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ If a man produces a disobedient and reckless son, who will not listen to the orders of his father or mother, and, having been corrected, shows contempt for obedience:

Deuteronomy 21:18 Cross References

Leviticus 19:3

You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is injured, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord has spoken: I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Proverbs 29:17

Discipline your children, and they will give you rest; they will give delight to your heart.

Proverbs 20:20

If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction.

Ezekiel 24:13

Yet when I cleansed you in your filthy lewdness, you did not become clean from your filth; you shall not again be cleansed until I have satisfied my fury upon you.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.

Jeremiah 31:18

Indeed, I heard Ephraim pleading: “You disciplined me, and I took the discipline; I was like an untrained calf. Bring me back; let me come back, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.

Proverbs 30:11

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 28:24

Anyone who robs father or mother and says, “That is no crime,” is partner to a thug.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises a parent’s instruction, but the one who heeds admonition is prudent.

Proverbs 13:24

Those who spare the rod hate their children, but those who love them are diligent to discipline them.

Proverbs 1:8

Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching,

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors father or mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 8:5

Know, then, in your heart that, as a parent disciplines a child, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

Leviticus 21:9

When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.

Exodus 21:17

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

Exodus 21:15

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

Deuteronomy 21:19

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place.

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

Jeremiah 5:23

But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.