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Ephesians 6:2

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2Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

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2Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

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2Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

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2Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment that has a promise attached:

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Extra References

Exodus 20:12

12Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.


Deuteronomy 27:16

16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


Matthew 15:4-6

4For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’5But 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,” 6he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.


Proverbs 20:20

20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.


Malachi 1:6

6A 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 the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’


Mark 7:9-13

9He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. 10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’11But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,”’”[+] that is to say, given to God, 12then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 13making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”


Ezekiel 22:7

7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. [+] Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.


Jeremiah 35:18

18Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you,’


Romans 13:7

7Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.