Ephesians 6:2

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Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise;

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
  • Jer 35:18 : 18 And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he has commanded you:
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die. 5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; 6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
  • Mark 7:9-9 : 9 And he said to them, You completely reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death. 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is, a gift to God, by which you might have been benefited by me; he shall be free. 12 And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 13 Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things.
  • Rom 13:7 : 7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eph 6:1
    86%

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

  • Deut 5:16-17
    2 verses
    85%

    16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

    17 You shall not kill.

  • Exod 20:12-13
    2 verses
    83%

    12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

    13 You shall not murder.

  • Eph 6:3-5
    3 verses
    83%

    3 That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

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

    5 Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

  • Matt 15:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die.

    5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me;

    6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

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

    21 Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.

  • Matt 19:19
    77%

    19 Honor your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  • Mark 7:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death.

    11 But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is, a gift to God, by which you might have been benefited by me; he shall be free.

    12 And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

  • Col 3:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

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

    21 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

  • Prov 1:8
    74%

    8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • Deut 27:16
    73%

    16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

    6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 23:22
    72%

    22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Exod 21:15
    72%

    15 And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 21:17
    72%

    17 And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 20:9
    72%

    9 For everyone that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Prov 17:6
    71%

    6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Deut 6:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 These are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land you are going to possess:

    2 That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your grandson, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

    3 Therefore, hear, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Luke 18:20
    71%

    20 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and your mother.

  • Prov 30:11
    71%

    11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Deut 6:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.

    6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:

    7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

  • Lev 19:3
    71%

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

  • Deut 6:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

    18 And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,

  • Mark 10:19
    70%

    19 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.

  • Deut 11:21
    69%

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

  • Prov 23:25
    69%

    25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.

  • Deut 6:20
    69%

    20 And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you?

  • Gen 27:8
    69%

    8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

  • Prov 3:1
    69%

    1 My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

  • 1 Tim 5:4
    69%

    4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents, for this is good and acceptable before God.

  • Matt 22:38
    69%

    38 This is the first and great commandment.

  • Prov 19:26
    69%

    26 He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

  • Lev 19:32
    68%

    32 You shall rise before the gray-headed, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.

  • Mark 12:30
    68%

    30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.

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