Verse 3

Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:8 : 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Exod 21:15 : 15 Anyone who strikes his father or mother shall surely be put to death.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death.
  • Exod 16:29 : 29 Understand that the LORD has given you the sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are; no one is to go out on the seventh day."
  • Lev 11:44 : 44 For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not defile yourselves with any of the swarming creatures that move along the ground.
  • Lev 26:2 : 2 Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the LORD.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them, 19 his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. 20 They shall say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not listen to us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching,
  • Prov 6:20-21 : 20 My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 21 Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
  • Isa 56:4-6 : 4 For this is what the LORD says: 'To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold tightly to my covenant, 5 I will give them within my house and within my walls a place and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will never be cut off.' 6 And to the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to serve Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold firmly to my covenant—
  • Isa 58:13 : 13 If you keep your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on my holy day, and you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way or doing as you please or speaking idle words,
  • Ezek 20:12 : 12 Also, I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between me and them, so they would know that I am the LORD who makes them holy.
  • Ezek 22:7-8 : 7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow. 8 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am a father, where is the honor I deserve? If I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. But you ask, 'How have we despised your name?'
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 But you say that if anyone declares to their father or mother, ‘What you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ 6 they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. 2 "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 so that it may go well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
  • Exod 31:13-17 : 13 Speak to the Israelites and say: 'You must observe my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 14 You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among their people. 15 For six days, work shall be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. 16 The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it as a perpetual covenant for their generations. 17 It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.