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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