Exodus 20:12

World English Bible (2000)

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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  • Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"
  • Luke 18:20 : 20 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"
  • Exod 21:15 : 15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' 5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Deut 25:15 : 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Deut 32:47 : 47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it."
  • 1 Kgs 2:19 : 19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
  • 2 Kgs 2:12 : 12 Elisha saw it, and he cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
  • Prov 1:8-9 : 8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching: 9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 23:22-25 : 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
  • Prov 28:24 : 24 Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
  • Eph 5:21 : 21 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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