Exodus 20:12

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Colossians 3:20

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

Deuteronomy 5:16

‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Mark 7:10

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

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks his father, And scorns obedience to his mother, The ravens of the valley will pick it out, And the young eagles will eat it.

Leviticus 19:3

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

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.’ ”

Matthew 19:19

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

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Exodus 21:17

“And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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 your mother.’ ”

Exodus 21:15

“And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 32:47

For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”

Proverbs 3:16

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

2 Kings 2:12

And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.

Deuteronomy 4:40

You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Deuteronomy 25:15

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

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, And a servant his master. If then I am the Father, Where is My honor? And if I am a Master, Where is My reverence? Says the Lord of hosts To you priests who despise My name. Yet you say, ‘In what way have we despised Your name?’

Proverbs 30:11

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

Proverbs 28:24

Whoever robs his father or his mother, And says, “It is no transgression,” The same is companion to a destroyer.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father’s instruction, But he who receives correction is prudent.

1 Kings 2:19

Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her and bowed down to her, and sat down on his throne and had a throne set for the king’s mother; so she sat at his right hand.

Leviticus 19:32

‘You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord.

Ephesians 5:21

submitting to one another in the fear of God.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 5:33

You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, 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

that you may fear the Lord your God, 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, and that your days may be prolonged.

Deuteronomy 11:8

“Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,

Deuteronomy 11:9

and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, to them and 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 chastened him, will not heed them,

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Proverbs 17:6

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

Jeremiah 35:7

You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, nor have any of these; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land where you are sojourners.’

Jeremiah 35:18

And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “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 commanded you,

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

Genesis 48:12

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

Genesis 50:12

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

Ruth 3:6

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

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 mother come here with you, till I know what God will do for me.”