Ephesians 6:2
Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise:
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
In Context
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
3so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
Ezekiel 22:7They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.
Matthew 15:4‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother shall die a death.’
Romans 13:7Therefore, render to all whatever is owed. Taxes, to whom taxes is due; revenue, to whom revenue is due; fear, to whom fear is due; honor, to whom honor is due.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 6:2-10
Duties of Children to Parents; Duties of Servants to Masters. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in… Read the whole commentary →