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Deuteronomy 5:16

Honour your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

In Context

15And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.

17You shall not kill.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12Honour your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 4:40You shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days upon the earth, which the LORD your God gives you, for ever.

Deuteronomy 5:33All of you shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that all of you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that all of you may prolong your days in the land which all of you shall possess.

Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Matthew 15:4For God commanded, saying, Honour your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.

Mark 7:10For Moses said, Honour your father and your mother; and, Whoso curses 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 →

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