Deuteronomy 5:16
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 go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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- 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.
- Ephesians 6:1–3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
- Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.