Exodus 20:12
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12 (A)“Honor your father and your mother, (B)that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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Ephesians 6:1-3
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Children and Parents
6 (A)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 (B)“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
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Colossians 3:20
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20 Children, obey your parents (A)in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 5:16
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16 “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, (A)that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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Mark 7:10
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10 For Moses said, (A)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, (B)‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
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Proverbs 23:22-25
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22 (A)Listen to your father who gave you life,
(B)and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 (C)Buy truth, and do not sell it;
buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 (D)The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
25 (E)Let your father and mother be glad;
let (F)her who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 30:17
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17 The eye that (A)mocks a father
and (B)scorns to obey a mother
will (C)be picked out by (D)the ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.
Leviticus 19:3
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3 (A)Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and (B)you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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Proverbs 1:8-9
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The Enticement of Sinners
8 (A)Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
and forsake not your mother's teaching,
9 for they are (B)a graceful garland for your head
and (C)pendants for your neck.
Luke 18:20
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20 You know the commandments: (A)‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”
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Proverbs 20:20
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Exodus 21:17
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17 (A)“Whoever curses[a] his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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- Exodus 21:17 Or dishonors; Septuagint reviles
Matthew 19:19
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19 Honor your father and mother, and, (A)You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Exodus 21:15
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15 “Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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Mark 10:19
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19 You know the commandments: (A)‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”
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Matthew 15:4-6
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4 For God commanded, (A)‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, (B)‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 5 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”[a] 6 he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have (C)made void the word[b] of God.
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- Matthew 15:5 Or is an offering
- Matthew 15:6 Some manuscripts law
Deuteronomy 32:47
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47 For it is no empty word for you, (A)but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
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Proverbs 3:16
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2 Kings 2:12
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12 And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! (A)The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more.
Then he took hold of his own clothes (B)and tore them in two pieces.
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Deuteronomy 4:40
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40 (A)Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, (B)that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
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Deuteronomy 25:15
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15 A full and fair[a] weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, (A)that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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- Deuteronomy 25:15 Or just, or righteous; twice in this verse
Malachi 1:6
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The Priests' Polluted Offerings
6 (A)“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am (B)a father, where is my honor? And if I am (C)a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. (D)But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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Proverbs 30:11
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- Proverbs 30:11 Hebrew There is a generation; also verses 12, 13, 14
Proverbs 28:24
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24 Whoever robs his father or his mother
and says, “That is no transgression,”
is (A)a companion to a man who destroys.
Proverbs 15:5
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