Deuteronomy 5:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
  • Col 3:20 : 20 Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. 5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; 6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.
  • Luke 18:20 : 20 You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), 3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    93%

    12Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

    13Do not put anyone to death without cause.

  • Eph 6:1-4
    4 verses
    85%

    1Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

    2Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

    3So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

    4And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

  • Matt 15:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

    5But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

    6There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

  • Matt 19:19
    80%

    19Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

  • Deut 5:17
    80%

    17Do not put anyone to death without cause.

  • Mark 7:10
    80%

    10For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

  • Exod 21:15
    78%

    15Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

  • Deut 11:21
    78%

    21So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

  • Deut 4:40
    77%

    40Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

  • Prov 6:20
    77%

    20My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

  • Deut 6:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

    3So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 21:17
    77%

    17Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

  • Deut 5:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord.

    12Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God.

  • Prov 23:22
    77%

    22Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

  • Lev 20:9
    76%

    9Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

  • Deut 30:20
    76%

    20In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  • Deut 27:16
    76%

    16Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Lev 19:3
    76%

    3Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 11:9
    76%

    9And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 5:15
    74%

    15And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.

  • Lev 19:32
    74%

    32Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 30:16
    74%

    16In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

  • Prov 1:8
    74%

    8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

  • Prov 23:25
    74%

    25Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

  • Deut 6:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

    18And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Luke 18:20
    74%

    20You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.

  • Deut 5:33
    74%

    33Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.

  • Col 3:20
    73%

    20Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

  • Deut 8:1
    73%

    1Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.

  • Deut 8:5
    73%

    5Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

  • Deut 4:25
    72%

    25If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Prov 30:11
    72%

    11There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

  • Exod 20:8
    72%

    8Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.

  • Deut 12:28
    72%

    28Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 4:10
    72%

    10That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

  • Mark 10:19
    72%

    19You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.

  • Deut 30:5
    72%

    5Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.

  • Deut 15:5
    72%

    5If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    72%

    40So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers.