Proverbs 20:20

Modern English Version

He who vilifies his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Cross References

Job 18:18

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Exodus 20:12

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

Exodus 21:17

He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gained at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.

Proverbs 24:20

for there will be no future for the evil man; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father, and does not bless its mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pluck it out, and the young vultures will eat it.

Leviticus 20:9

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood guilt shall be upon him.

Matthew 15:4

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Matthew 22:13

“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Matthew 25:8

But the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps have gone out.’

Deuteronomy 27:16

“Cursed is he who disrespects his father or his mother.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”

Jude 1:13

raging waves of the sea, which are foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been kept forever.