Exodus 20:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹² Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Regard (treat with honor, due obedience, and courtesy) your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land the Lord your God gives you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Common English Bible

¹² Honor your father and your mother so that your life will be long on the fertile land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Honor 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Exodus 20:12 Cross References

Genesis 48:12

And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Genesis 50:12

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

1 Kings 2:19

Bath–she´ba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adoni´jah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

2 Kings 2:12

And Eli´sha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof! And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

Exodus 21:15

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Exodus 21:17

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 17:6

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Proverbs 28:24

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Proverbs 3:16

Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Jeremiah 35:18

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rech´abites, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jon´adab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you;

Jeremiah 35:7

neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Leviticus 19:3

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:32

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

Malachi 1:6

A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Matthew 19:19

Honor thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Mark 10:19

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

Luke 18:20

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and thy mother.

Ephesians 5:21

submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Deuteronomy 11:8

Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

Deuteronomy 11:9

and that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Deuteronomy 25:15

but thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 32:47

For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:40

Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor 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.

Deuteronomy 5:33

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Deuteronomy 6:2

that thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord.

Ruth 3:6

And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.

1 Samuel 22:3

And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.