Is It Important to Honor Your Parents?
Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for children, so they will honor their parents. In Jesus’s name, amen.
The notes in the English Standard Version of the Bible under Proverbs 22-25 tell us: “Saying Sixteen. Acquiring wisdom is a duty in that it is the best way one can fulfill the command to honor one’s parents.”
Proverbs 23:22-25 (ESV) deals with the dynamic relationship between parents and their children.
“Listen to your father who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Buy truth, and do not sell it;
buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
Let your father and mother be glad;
let her who bore you rejoice.”
Honoring parents is the fifth of the Ten Commandments. Yet, this command is ignored by many in modern society.
Take a step closer to following God’s preferred plan, and do something to honor your parents today.
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