Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as your God YHWH has commanded you, so that your days are prolonged, and so that it is well with you on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
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Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
Deuteronomy 4:40and you have kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you today, so that it is well for you, and for your sons after you, and so that you prolong days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you—all the days.”
Deuteronomy 5:33in all the way which your God YHWH has commanded you—walk, so that you live, and [it is] well with you, and you have prolonged days in the land which you possess.”
Deuteronomy 27:16“Cursed [is] he who is making light of his father and his mother.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”
Matthew 15:4For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death;
Mark 7:10for Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death;
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:7-23
6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them… Read the whole commentary →