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Exodus 20:12
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Exodus 20:12
12¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
12¶ *Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy dayes may bee long vpon the land, which the LORD thy God giueth thee.
- Deut. 5.16. mat. 15.4. ephes. 6.2.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 20:12
A female parent; figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study1CHILDREN, 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.
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Open the full verse study20Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
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Open the full verse study16¶ Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Open the full verse study10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
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Open the full verse study22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
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Open the full verse study3¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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Open the full verse study17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
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Open the full verse study8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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Open the full verse study17¶ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
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Open the full verse study20Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
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Open the full verse study19Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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Open the full verse study20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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Open the full verse study15¶ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
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Open the full verse study19Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
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Open the full verse study4For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
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Open the full verse study47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
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Open the full verse study12¶ And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
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Open the full verse study40Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.
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Open the full verse study5A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
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Open the full verse study15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Open the full verse study32¶ Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study6¶ 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?
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Open the full verse study24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
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Open the full verse study16Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
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Open the full verse study11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
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Open the full verse study26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
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Open the full verse study21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
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