Exodus 20:12

The fifth commandment calls us to honor father and mother, with a promise of long life in the land. Respecting God-given authority brings blessing.

Cross-references · 28

• Eph 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
• Col 3:20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
• Deut 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Mark 7:10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
• Prov 23:22–25Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
• Lev 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
• Prov 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
• Prov 1:8–9Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
• Exod 21:17Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
• Matt 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
• Luke 18:20You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
• Prov 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
• Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
• Exod 21:15Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
• Matt 15:4–6For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
• Deut 32:47For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
• Deut 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
• 2 Kgs 2:12As Elisha watched, he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.
• Prov 15:5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
• Prov 28:24He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
• Prov 3:16Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
• Lev 19:32You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
• Mal 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
• Deut 25:15You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• 1 Kgs 2:19So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.
• Eph 5:21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
• Deut 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

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