Ephesians 6:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),”
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BSBPD
““Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“honour thy father and mother,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Ephesians 6:2 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
- Jeremiah 35:18Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,
- Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
- Matthew 15:4For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
- Mark 7:9He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.
- Romans 13:7Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
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