3 If you respect your father, you can make up for your sins,
4 and if you honour your mother, you are earning great wealth.
5 If you respect your father, one day your own children will make you happy; the Lord will hear your prayers.
6 If you obey the Lord by honouring your father and making your mother happy, you will live a long life.
7 Obey your parents as if you were their slave.
8 Honour your father in everything you do and say, so that you may receive his blessing.
9 When parents give their blessing, they give strength to their children's homes, but when they curse their children, they destroy the very foundations.