Deuteronomy 5:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath command 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Thou 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.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
  • Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto 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 commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; 6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 Thou 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.
  • Luke 18:20 : 20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour 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%

    12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

    13 Thou shalt not kill.

  • Eph 6:1-4
    4 verses
    85%

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

    2 Honour 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.

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

  • Matt 15:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

    5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

    6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

  • Matt 19:19
    80%

    19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  • Deut 5:17
    80%

    17 Thou shalt not kill.

  • Mark 7:10
    80%

    10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

  • Exod 21:15
    78%

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

  • Deut 11:21
    78%

    21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

  • Deut 4:40
    77%

    40 Thou 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.

  • Prov 6:20
    77%

    20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Deut 6:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 That thou mightest fear the LORD 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.

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

  • Exod 21:17
    77%

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

  • Deut 5:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

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

    12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath command thee.

  • Prov 23:22
    77%

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

  • Lev 20:9
    76%

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

  • Deut 30:20
    76%

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

  • Deut 27:16
    76%

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

  • Lev 19:3
    76%

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

  • Deut 11:9
    76%

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

  • Deut 5:15
    74%

    15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God command thee to keep the sabbath day.

  • Lev 19:32
    74%

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

  • Deut 30:16
    74%

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

  • Prov 1:8
    74%

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

  • Prov 23:25
    74%

    25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

  • Deut 6:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Luke 18:20
    74%

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

  • Deut 5:33
    74%

    33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath command 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%

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

  • Deut 8:1
    73%

    1 All the commandments 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 the LORD sware unto your fathers.

  • Deut 8:5
    73%

    5 Thou shalt also consir in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

  • Deut 4:25
    72%

    25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

  • Prov 30:11
    72%

    11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

  • Exod 20:8
    72%

    8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

  • Deut 12:28
    72%

    28 Observe 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 sight of the LORD thy God.

  • Deut 4:10
    72%

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

  • Mark 10:19
    72%

    19 Thou 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.

  • Deut 30:5
    72%

    5 And the LORD 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%

    5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    72%

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