Verse 12

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.

Referenced Verses

  • Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and,‘Whoever insults his father or mother must 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 accompanied by a promise, namely, 3 “that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD 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:‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”
  • Exod 21:15 : 15 “Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 “Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother– the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,” 6 he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.
  • Deut 25:15 : 15 You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the LORD your God is about to give you.
  • Deut 32:47 : 47 For this is no idle word for you– it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”
  • 1 Kgs 2:19 : 19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right hand.
  • 2 Kgs 2:12 : 12 While Elisha was watching, he was crying out,“My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!” Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.
  • Prov 1:8-9 : 8 Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother. 9 For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.
  • Prov 23:22-25 : 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 23 Acquire truth and do not sell it– wisdom, and discipline, and understanding. 24 The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him. 25 May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.
  • Prov 28:24 : 24 The one who robs his father and mother and says,“There is no transgression,” is a companion to the one who destroys.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 The Sacrilege of Priestly Service“A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The LORD of Heaven’s Armies asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply,‘How have we made light of your name?’
  • Eph 5:21 : 21 and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.