Exodus 20:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 48:12

Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Genesis 50:12

Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them;

1 Kings 2:19

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her, and bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne, and had a seat brought for the king's mother; and she sat on his right.

2 Kings 2:12

And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces.

Exodus 21:15

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:17

“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who heeds admonition is prudent.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of sons is their fathers.

Proverbs 20:20

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 28:24

He who robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is the companion of a man who destroys.

Proverbs 3:16

Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

Proverbs 30:11

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Jeremiah 35:18

But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done all that he commanded you,

Jeremiah 35:7

you shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

Leviticus 19:3

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

Leviticus 19:32

“You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall 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. You say, ‘How have we despised thy name?’

Matthew 19:19

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

Mark 10:19

You know the commandments: ‘Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, 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, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die’;

Luke 18:20

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

Ephesians 5:21

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Deuteronomy 11:8

“You shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are going over to possess,

Deuteronomy 11:9

and that you may live long 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, though they chastise him, will not give heed to them,

Deuteronomy 25:15

A full and just weight you shall have, a full and just measure you shall have; that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“ ‘Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 32:47

For it is no trifle for you, but it is your life, and thereby you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

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 are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:40

Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, 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 gives you for ever.”

Deuteronomy 5:16

“ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 5:33

You shall walk in all the way which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land which you shall possess.

Deuteronomy 6:2

that you may fear the Lord you God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Ruth 3:6

So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had told her.

1 Samuel 22:3

And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Pray let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.”