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Exodus 20:12
Exodus 20:12 is verse 12 of Exodus chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Cited in Matthew 15:4, Matthew 19:19, Mark 7:10, Luke 18:20, and Ephesians 6:2–3
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.
World English Bible
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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Exodus 20:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
12 Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
13 You shall not murder.
14 You shall not commit adultery.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 21:15Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:17Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:32You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
1 Kings 2:19So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.
2 Kings 2:12As Elisha watched, he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.
Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Proverbs 1:9For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
Proverbs 15:5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:23Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Proverbs 23:24The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
Proverbs 23:25May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
Proverbs 28:24He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
Proverbs 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
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.’
Matthew 15:5But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’
Matthew 15:6he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
Luke 18:20You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
Ephesians 5:21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Ephesians 6:1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Ephesians 6:2“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Ephesians 6:3“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
Colossians 3:20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
Deuteronomy 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
Deuteronomy 25:15You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 32:47For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Proverbs 3:16Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.