Ephesians 6:2
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
3 “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
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- Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
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Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:16
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Read in contextMatthew 15:4–6
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
Read in contextProverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:7
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
Read in contextMalachi 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?’
Read in contextMark 7:9–13
He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.
Read in contextJeremiah 35:18
Then 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,
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