How should parents be treated? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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Honor your parents.

Exodus 20:12 View context

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy .5:16 View context

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Ephesians 6:2 View context

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

Proverbs 1:8 View context

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 23:22 View context

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Malachi 4:6 View context

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Disrespect and hate your parents.

Matthew 12:47-48 View context

Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

Matthew 23:9 View context

And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Mark 3:32-33 View context

And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.

And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?

Luke 9:59-60 View context

And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

Luke 14:26 View context

If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.