Exodus 20:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Cross References

Genesis 48:12

Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth.

Genesis 50:12

So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:

1 Kings 2:19

So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.

2 Kings 2:12

And when Elisha saw it he gave a cry, My father, my father, the carriages of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no longer; and he was full of grief.

Exodus 21:15

Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

Exodus 21:17

Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

Proverbs 15:5

A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.

Proverbs 17:6

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

Proverbs 20:20

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

Proverbs 28:24

He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

Proverbs 3:16

Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

Jeremiah 35:18

But to the Rechabites Jeremiah said, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have done the orders of Jonadab your father, and have kept his rules, and done everything as he gave you orders to do it;

Jeremiah 35:7

And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

Leviticus 19:3

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:32

Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.

Malachi 1:6

A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

Matthew 19:19

Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Mark 10:19

You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

Luke 18:20

You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.

Ephesians 5:21

Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.

Deuteronomy 11:8

So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;

Deuteronomy 11:9

And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

Deuteronomy 25:15

But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

Deuteronomy 32:47

And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

Deuteronomy 4:26

May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will quickly overtake you, cutting you off from that land which you are going over Jordan to take; your days will not be long in that land, but you will come to a complete end.

Deuteronomy 4:40

Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 5:33

Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.

Deuteronomy 6:2

So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

Colossians 3:20

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Ruth 3:6

So she went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had said to her.

1 Samuel 22:3

And from there David went to Mizpeh in the land of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and mother come and make their living-place with you till it is clear to me what God will do for me.