Proverbs 20:20

The Message

Anyone who curses father and mother extinguishes light and exists benighted.

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Honor your father and mother so that you’ll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you.

“If someone curses father or mother, the penalty is death.

The lives of good people are brightly lit streets; the lives of the wicked are dark alleys.

A bonanza at the beginning is no guarantee of blessing at the end.

Don’t curse your father or fail to bless your mother.

An eye that disdains a father and despises a mother— that eye will be plucked out by wild vultures and consumed by young eagles.

“Any and every person who curses his father or mother must be put to death. By cursing his father or mother he is responsible for his own death.