Ephesians 6:2 · KJV
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
— Ephesians 6:2
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Ephesians 6 — Context
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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.
Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed {be} he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. {lamp: or, candle}
Malachi 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?
Mark 7:9-13
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. {reject: or, frustrate}
Ezekiel 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. {oppression: or, deceit}
Jeremiah 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: