Exodus 20:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² Honour 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.

Exodus 20:12 Cross References

Colossians 3:20

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

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God commanded thee: that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

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.

Leviticus 19:3

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

Luke 18:20

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

Matthew 19:19

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.

Exodus 21:17

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

Mark 10:19

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

Exodus 21:15

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

Deuteronomy 32:47

For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days upon the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

Proverbs 3:16

Length of days is in her right had; In her left hand are riches and honour.

2 Kings 2:12

And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots 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.

Deuteronomy 4:40

And thou shalt keep 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 land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Deuteronomy 25:15

A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Malachi 1:6

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? 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?

Proverbs 30:11

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

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 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's correction: But he that regardeth reproof getteth prudence.

1 Kings 2:19

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

Leviticus 19:32

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

Ephesians 5:21

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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 5:33

Ye shall walk in all the way 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.

Deuteronomy 11:8

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

Deuteronomy 11:9

and that ye may prolong your days upon the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing 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 though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them:

Deuteronomy 27:16

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

Proverbs 17:6

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

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 wherein ye sojourn.

Jeremiah 35:18

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;

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 wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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:

Ruth 3:6

And she went down unto the threshing-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.