---
title: 'Filial Duty'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Jared Bell Waterbury'
date: 1842-03-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Exodus 20'
- 'Leviticus 19'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/waterbury-1842-filial-duty
---

# Filial Duty

Sermon urging youth to honor and obey parents (Exod. 20:12). Explains filial duty—respect, obedience, gratitude—grounded in parents' age, experience, sacrifice, and divine law.

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