Scriptures: Treatment of Children/Parents/Spouses

Exodus 21
15. And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Exodus 21
17. And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

1 Samuel 15
23. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. [.]

Proverbs 13
24. He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Proverbs 15
20. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Matthew 5
31. It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
32. But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Ephesians 5
22. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Ephesians 6
1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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