Ephesians 6:2
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition 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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- Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
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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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- Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
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- “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise,
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- Hedre din far og din mor - dette er det første bud med løfte -
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Read in contextMatthew 15:4–6
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Read in contextProverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:7
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Read in contextMalachi 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?
Read in contextMark 7:9–13
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Read in contextJeremiah 35:18
And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
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