Proverbs 20:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Cross References

Exodus 21:17

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

Proverbs 30:11

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

Proverbs 24:20

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

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.

Matthew 15:4

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.’

Proverbs 30:17

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

Leviticus 20:9

For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is upon him.

Exodus 20:12

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

Matthew 25:8

And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’

Proverbs 13:9

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

Deuteronomy 27:16

“ ‘Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Job 18:18

He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning will in the end not be blessed.