Deuteronomy 5:16

American Standard Version (1901)

Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:40 : 40 And thou shalt keep 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 in the land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
  • Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God] ; 6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother.
  • Luke 18:20 : 20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and mother.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), 3 that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    93%

    12Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

    13Thou shalt not kill.

  • Eph 6:1-4
    4 verses
    85%

    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

    2Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

    3that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

    4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

  • Matt 15:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

    5But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God] ;

    6he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

  • Matt 19:19
    80%

    19Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

  • Deut 5:17
    80%

    17Thou shalt not kill.

  • Mark 7:10
    80%

    10For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

  • Exod 21:15
    78%

    15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

  • Deut 11:21
    78%

    21that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

  • Deut 4:40
    77%

    40And thou shalt keep 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 in the land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.

  • Prov 6:20
    77%

    20My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Deut 6:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2that thou mightest fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

    3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 21:17
    77%

    17And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 5:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

    12Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

  • Prov 23:22
    77%

    22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

  • Lev 20:9
    76%

    9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Deut 30:20
    76%

    20to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

  • Deut 27:16
    76%

    16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Lev 19:3
    76%

    3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

  • Deut 11:9
    76%

    9and that ye may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 5:15
    74%

    15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

  • Lev 19:32
    74%

    32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

  • Deut 30:16
    74%

    16in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

  • Prov 1:8
    74%

    8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Prov 23:25
    74%

    25Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

  • Deut 6:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

    18And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of Jehovah; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers,

  • Luke 18:20
    74%

    20Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and mother.

  • Deut 5:33
    74%

    33Ye shall walk in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

  • Col 3:20
    73%

    20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

  • Deut 8:1
    73%

    1All the commandment which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers.

  • Deut 8:5
    73%

    5And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee.

  • Deut 4:25
    72%

    25When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke him to anger;

  • Prov 30:11
    72%

    11There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.

  • Exod 20:8
    72%

    8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

  • Deut 12:28
    72%

    28Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

  • Deut 4:10
    72%

    10the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said unto me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

  • Mark 10:19
    72%

    19Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother.

  • Deut 30:5
    72%

    5and Jehovah thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

  • Deut 15:5
    72%

    5if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    72%

    40that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.