Deuteronomy 21:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“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,

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.