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.

Cross References (28)

  • Ephesians 6:1–3 (71)

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

  • Colossians 3:20 (61)

    Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

  • Deuteronomy 5:16 (48)

    Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may

  • Mark 7:10 (29)

    For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

  • Proverbs 23:22–25 (27)

    Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Leviticus 19:3 (23)

    Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

  • Proverbs 30:17 (22)

    As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young

  • Proverbs 1:8–9 (19)

    Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

  • Matthew 19:19 (17)

    honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”

  • Exodus 21:17 (17)

    Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

  • Luke 18:20 (17)

    You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your f

  • Proverbs 20:20 (17)

    Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.

  • Mark 10:19 (15)

    You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat

  • Exodus 21:15 (15)

    Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.

  • Matthew 15:4–6 (12)

    For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

  • Deuteronomy 4:40 (10)

    Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, an

  • 2 Kings 2:12 (10)

    As Elisha watched, he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And he saw Elijah no more.

  • Deuteronomy 32:47 (10)

    For 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

  • Proverbs 15:5 (9)

    A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.

  • Leviticus 19:32 (8)

    You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

  • 1 Kings 2:19 (8)

    So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat do

  • Malachi 1:6 (8)

    “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

  • Proverbs 30:11 (8)

    There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

  • Proverbs 28:24 (8)

    He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.

  • Proverbs 3:16 (8)

    Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

  • Deuteronomy 25:15 (8)

    You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God

  • Ephesians 5:21 (5)

    Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

  • Deuteronomy 4:26 (5)

    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossi