Parallel Verses

King James Version

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

New American Standard Bible

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

Holman Bible

Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

International Standard Version

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

A Conservative Version

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

American Standard Version

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Amplified

“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.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Julia Smith Translation

Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.

King James 2000

Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.

Modern King James verseion

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

NET Bible

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Honour thy father, and thy mother, - that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil, which Yahweh thy God is about to give unto thee.

Webster

Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּבד כּבד 
Kabad 
Usage: 114

and thy mother
אם 
'em 
Usage: 220

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

may be long
ארך 
'arak 
Usage: 34

upon the land
אדמה 
'adamah 
Usage: 225

which the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

Images Exodus 20:12

Context Readings

The Ten Commandments

11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill.


Cross References

Leviticus 19:3

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Luke 18:20

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

Exodus 21:15

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Exodus 21:17

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 19:32

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Matthew 19:19

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Mark 10:19

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

Ephesians 6:1-3

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Colossians 3:20

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

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:40

Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 25:15

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 32:47

For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

1 Kings 2:19

Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

2 Kings 2:12

And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

Proverbs 1:8-9

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 3:16

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

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Proverbs 23:22-25

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Proverbs 28:24

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Malachi 1:6

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Matthew 15:4-6

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Ephesians 5:21

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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