Exodus 20:12
“Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the Lord your God gives you.
Leviticus 19:3
Each of you shall
Luke 18:20
Mark 7:10
Exodus 21:15
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.
Exodus 21:17
“Whoever
Leviticus 19:32
‘You shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the Lord.
Matthew 19:19
Mark 10:19
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord [that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives], for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline].
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents [as God’s representatives] in all things, for this [attitude of respect and obedience] is well-pleasing
Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.
Deuteronomy 4:40
So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
Deuteronomy 5:16
‘Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that your days [on the earth] may be prolonged and so that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 25:15
You shall have a perfect (full) and just weight, and a perfect and just measure, so that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 32:47
For it is not an empty or trivial matter for you; indeed it is your [very] life. By [honoring and obeying] this word you will live long in the land, which you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
1 Kings 2:19
So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat down on his throne; then he had a throne set for her, the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.
2 Kings 2:12
Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he no longer saw Elijah. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces [in grief].
Proverbs 1:8-9
My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not reject the teaching of your mother.
Proverbs 3:16
Long life is in her right hand;
In her left hand are riches and honor.
Proverbs 15:5
A [flippant, arrogant] fool rejects his father’s instruction and correction,
But he who [is willing to learn and] regards and keeps in mind a reprimand acquires good sense.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or his mother,
His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness.
Proverbs 23:22-25
Listen to your father, who sired you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 28:24
He who robs his father or his mother
And says, “This is no sin,”
Is [not only a thief but also] the companion of a man who destroys.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation (class of people) that curses its father
And does not bless its mother.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks a father
And scorns a mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young vultures will devour it.
Malachi 1:6
“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a Father, where is My honor? And if I am a Master, where is the [reverent] fear and respect due Me?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise My name. But you say, ‘How and in what way have we despised Your name?’
Matthew 15:4-6
Ephesians 5:21
being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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Long life is in her right hand;
In her left hand are riches and honor.