“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
Parallel translations
- KJV Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
- BSB “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
- NKJV “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise:
- NASB Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),
- NLT “Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise:
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Quick answer
Honoring father and mother is the first commandment that comes with a promise. God attaches blessing to this command.
Overview
Paul cites the fifth commandment (Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16), noting it is 'the first commandment with a promise.' Honoring parents goes beyond mere childhood obedience to lifelong respect. By rooting his exhortation in the law, Paul shows the abiding moral authority of God's commands for Christian conduct.
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Cross-references · 9
- Exod 20:12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deut 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
- Matt 15:4–6For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
- Prov 20:20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
- Mal 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
- Ezek 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
- Mark 7:9–13He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
- Jer 35:18Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;’
- Rom 13:7Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
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