Exodus 20:12
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12 (A)“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be (B)long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Ephesians 6:1-3
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Children and Parents(A)
6 Children, (B)obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 (C)“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
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Colossians 3:20
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20 (A)Children, obey your parents (B)in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 5:16
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16 (A)‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, (B)that your days may be long, and that it may be well with (C)you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Mark 7:10
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10 For Moses said, (A)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, (B)‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’
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Proverbs 23:22-25
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22 (A)Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 (B)Buy the truth, and do not sell it,
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 (C)The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 30:17
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17 (A)The eye that mocks his father,
And scorns obedience to his mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.
Leviticus 19:3
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3 (A)‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and (B)keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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Proverbs 1:8-9
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Shun Evil Counsel
8 (A)My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not forsake the law of your mother;
9 For they will be a (B)graceful ornament on your head,
And chains about 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,’ (B)‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”
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Proverbs 20:20
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Exodus 21:17
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17 “And (A)he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
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Matthew 19:19
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19 (A)‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, (B)‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
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Exodus 21:15
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15 “And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
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Mark 10:19
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19 You know the commandments: (A)‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”
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Matthew 15:4-6
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4 For God commanded, saying, (A)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, (B)‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, (C)“Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father [a]or mother.’ Thus you have made the [b]commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
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- Matthew 15:6 NU omits or mother
- Matthew 15:6 NU word
Deuteronomy 32:47
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47 For it is not a [a]futile thing for you, because it is your (A)life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”
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- Deuteronomy 32:47 vain
Proverbs 3:16
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16 (A)Length of days is in her right hand,
In her left hand riches and honor.
2 Kings 2:12
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12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, (A)“My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.
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Deuteronomy 4:40
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40 (A)You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that [a]it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may [b]prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
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- Deuteronomy 4:40 you may prosper
- Deuteronomy 4:40 live long
Deuteronomy 25:15
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15 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, (A)that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
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Malachi 1:6
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Polluted Offerings
6 “A son (A)honors his father,
And a servant his master.
(B)If then I am the Father,
Where is My honor?
And if I am a Master,
Where is My reverence?
Says the Lord of hosts
To you priests who despise My name.
(C)Yet you say, ‘In what way have we despised Your name?’
Proverbs 30:11
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11 There is a generation that curses its (A)father,
And does not bless its mother.
Proverbs 28:24
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24 Whoever robs his father or his mother,
And says, “It is no transgression,”
The same (A)is companion to a destroyer.
Proverbs 15:5
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Footnotes
- Proverbs 15:5 Lit. keeps
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