Exodus 20:12

Modern English Version

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Cross References

Genesis 48:12

So Joseph took them from beside his knees, and he bowed down with his face to the ground.

Genesis 50:12

So his sons did with him just as he had commanded them.

1 Kings 2:19

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her and bowed to her. Then he sat down on his throne and had a seat placed at his right hand for her to sit upon.

2 Kings 2:12

Elisha was watching and crying, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he did not see him again. Then he grabbed his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

Exodus 21:15

He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 21:17

He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool spurns the instruction of his father, but he who heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their father.

Proverbs 20:20

He who vilifies his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 28:24

He who robs his father or his mother and says, “It is no transgression,” is a companion to a destroyer.

Proverbs 3:16

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

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father, and does not bless its mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pluck it out, and the young vultures will eat it.

Jeremiah 35:18

Jeremiah said to the house of the Rekabites: Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done according to all that he has commanded you,

Jeremiah 35:7

You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, nor own one, but all your days you shall dwell in tents, so that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Leviticus 19:3

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you will keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:32

You shall rise up before a gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord.

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My fear? says the Lord of Hosts to you, O priests, who despise My name. But you say, “How have we despised Your name?”

Matthew 19:19

Honor your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ”

Mark 10:19

You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother. ”

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Luke 18:20

You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and your mother. ”

Ephesians 5:21

being submissive to one another in the fear of God.

Deuteronomy 11:8

Therefore you must keep all the commandments which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land which you are going to possess;

Deuteronomy 11:9

and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have disciplined him, will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 25:15

But you must have a perfect and just weight—a perfect and just measure you must have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“Cursed is he who disrespects his father or his mother.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”

Deuteronomy 32:47

For it is no idle word for you, because it is your life, and by this word you will prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely and suddenly perish from off the land that you are going across the Jordan to possess. You will not prolong your days on it, but shall be completely destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:40

Therefore, you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, forever.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor your father and your mother, just 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 is giving you.

Deuteronomy 5:33

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

Deuteronomy 6:2

so that you might fear the Lord your God in order to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you—you, and your son, and your grandson—all the days of your life, so that your days may be prolonged.

Colossians 3:20

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

Ruth 3:6

So she went down to the threshing floor and did all that her mother-in-law had instructed.

1 Samuel 22:3

Then David went from there to Mizpah of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come forth and be with you until I know what God will do for me.”