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• Whoever glorifies his father will have a long life. Whoever obeys the Lord gives comfort to his mother. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 6)

• For a father's blessing secures the future of his children, but a mother's curse destroys them at their roots. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 9)

• For a man's glory comes from his father's reputation; a mother who is not respected is a disgrace to her children. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 11)

• The man who abandons his father is like a blasphemer; he who annoys his mother is cursed by the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 16)

• Be like a father towards orphans and like a husband towards their mothers. Then you will be like a son of the Most High and he will love you more than your own mother. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 10)

• Honor your father with your whole heart and do not be forgetful of the sufferings of your mother. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 27)

• She will come out to meet him like a mother and greet him like a virgin bride; (Ecclesiasticus 15, 2)

• Remember your father and mother when you are sitting in the company of the great, lest you forget yourself in their presence and act like a fool. Then you would wish you had never been born, and curse the day of your birth. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 14)

• Painful is the lot of all men, a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam from the day they leave their mother's womb to the day they return to the mother of us all. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 1)

• Be ashamed of licentiousness before your father and mother, and of a lie before a ruler or an important person. (Ecclesiasticus 41, 17)

• Before the child knows how to say "father" or "mother", the wealth of Damascus and the booty of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria." (Isaiah 8, 4)

• "Who does he think he is teaching? Who does he think listens to him? Babies just weaned from their mother's milk? Babies just taken from their mother's breast? (Isaiah 28, 9)