Parallel Verses
Amplified
Honor [esteem, value as precious] your father and your mother [and be respectful to them]—this is the first commandment with a promise—
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Holman Bible
Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment
International Standard Version
"Honor your father and mother"" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.)
A Conservative Version
Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,
American Standard Version
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
An Understandable Version
[Ex. 20:12 says], "Show honor to your father and mother," (which is the first commandment that carries the promise),
Anderson New Testament
Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
Bible in Basic English
Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),
Common New Testament
"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Daniel Mace New Testament
the first commandment with a promise annexed, is, "honour thy father and mother,
Darby Translation
Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
Godbey New Testament
Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,
Goodspeed New Testament
"You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth."
John Wesley New Testament
thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise) That it may be well with thee,
Julia Smith Translation
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;)
King James 2000
Honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Modern King James verseion
Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Honour thy father and mother," that is the first commandment that hath any promise,
Moffatt New Testament
honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise),
Montgomery New Testament
Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),
NET Bible
"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,
New Heart English Bible
"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:
Noyes New Testament
"Honor thy father and mother;" which is the first commandment with a promise;
Sawyer New Testament
Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
The Emphasized Bible
Honour thy father and thy mother, - which indeed is the first commandment with promise,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
"Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with a promise;)
Twentieth Century New Testament
'Honor thy father and mother'--this is the first Commandment with a promise--'
Webster
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise)
Weymouth New Testament
"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--
Williams New Testament
"You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good
World English Bible
"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:
Worrell New Testament
"Honor your father and mother" (which, indeed, is the first commandment with a promise),
Worsley New Testament
Honour thy father and thy mother, (which is the first commandment with promise,)
Youngs Literal Translation
honour thy father and mother,
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Children And Parents
1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord [that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives], for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline].
2 Honor [esteem, value as precious] your father and your mother [and be respectful to them]—this is the first commandment with a promise—
3
so that it may be well with you, and that you may have a long life on the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12
“Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land the Lord your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 27:16
‘Cursed is he who dishonors (treats with contempt) his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or his mother,
His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness.
Jeremiah 35:18
Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and have kept all his commands and have done according to all that he commanded you,
Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Malachi 1:6
“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a Father, where is My honor? And if I am a Master, where is the [reverent] fear and respect due Me?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise My name. But you say, ‘How and in what way have we despised Your name?’
Matthew 15:4-6
Mark 7:9-13
He was also saying to them,
Romans 13:7
Pay to all what is due: tax to whom tax is due, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, honor to whom honor.