KJV King James Version
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
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Ephesians 6:2
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
WEB World English Bible
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
ASV American Standard Version
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
honour thy father and mother,
Surrounding context — Ephesians 6
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 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.
5 Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
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τίμαG5091 · timaōto honorτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoπατέραG3962 · patērfatherσουG4771 · suyouκαὶG2532 · kaiandτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoμητέρα,G3384 · mētērmotherἥτιςG3748 · hostis, hētiswho/whichἐστὶνG1510 · eimito beἐντολὴG1785 · entolēcommandmentπρώτηG4413 · prōtosfirstἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongἐπαγγελίᾳ,G1860 · epangeliapromise
Cross-references
Exodus 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.Matthew 15:4-6For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.Malachi 1:6A 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?Ezekiel 22:7In 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.Mark 7:9-13And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.Jeremiah 35:18And 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:Romans 13:7Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
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