Deuteronomy 21:18

New English Translation

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:14

I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Exodus 21:15

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

Exodus 21:17

“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

Proverbs 1:8

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

Proverbs 13:24

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

Proverbs 20:20

The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Proverbs 28:24

The one who robs his father and mother and says, “There is no transgression,” is a companion to the one who destroys.

Proverbs 29:17

Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; he will bring you happiness.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother – the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

Isaiah 1:2

Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the Lord speaks: “I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully, ‘We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 5:23

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

Ezekiel 24:13

You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. I tried to cleanse you, but you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness until I have exhausted my anger on you.

Leviticus 19:3

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 21:9

If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.

Deuteronomy 21:19

his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 8:5

Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.

1 Samuel 3:13

You should tell him that I am about to judge his house forever because of the sin that he knew about. For his sons were cursing God, and he did not rebuke them.