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 all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
• Deut 5:16Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Mark 7:10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
• Prov 23:22–25Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
• Lev 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Prov 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
• Prov 1:8–9My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Exod 21:17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
• Matt 19:19Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Luke 18:20Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
• Prov 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
• Mark 10:19Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
• Exod 21:15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
• Matt 15:4–6For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
• Deut 32:47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
• Deut 4:40Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
• 2 Kgs 2:12And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
• Prov 15:5A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
• Prov 28:24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
• Prov 3:16Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
• Lev 19:32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
• Mal 1:6A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
• Deut 25:15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• 1 Kgs 2:19Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
• Eph 5:21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
• Deut 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

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