Proverbs 28:24

Whose robbeth his father or his mother Who openly or secretly, by force, fraud, or deceit, by arts or threats, or by negligent or wilful wasting, deprives them of their property, or runs in debt and leaves them to pay it; and saith In his heart; It is no transgression Supposing that he hath a right to his parents' goods; the same is the companion of a destroyer Not only shows that he associates with spendthrifts, who will lead him to his ruin, but is wicked enough to be a highwayman, and murderer of others, for the satisfaction of his own lusts: he is indeed a thief and a robber, because he hath no right to the actual possession of his parents' goods before their death, or without their consent.