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 pleases the Lord.
• Deut 5:16“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
• Mark 7:10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
• Prov 23:22–25Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
• Lev 19:3“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
• Prov 30:17“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
• Prov 1:8–9My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
• Exod 21:17“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
• Matt 19:19‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
• Luke 18:20You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”
• Prov 20:20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
• Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”
• Exod 21:15“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
• 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.’
• Deut 32:47For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
• Deut 4:40You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
• 2 Kgs 2:12Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
• Prov 15:5A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
• Prov 28:24Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.
• Prov 3:16Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
• Lev 19:32“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
• 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?’
• Deut 25:15You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
• 1 Kgs 2:19Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
• Eph 5:21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
• Deut 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

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