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Children and Parents

Ephesians 6:2

In 9 translations

BSB
“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
KJV
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
WEB
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
ASV
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
LSV
honor your father and mother,
YLT
honour thy father and mother,
DBY
Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
DRC
Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:
GNV
Honour thy father and mother (which is the first commandement with promise)

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
τίμα τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἐντολὴ πρώτη ἐν ἐπαγγελίᾳ,
RP2018
Τίμα τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα ἥτις ἐστὶν ἐντολὴ πρώτη ἐν ἐπαγγελίᾳ,
TR-Boyd
Τίμα τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα ἥτις ἐστὶν ἐντολὴ πρώτη ἐν ἐπαγγελίᾳ,
SCR1894
τιμα τον πατερα σου και την μητερα ητις εστιν εντολη πρωτη εν επαγγελια

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  • Matthew 15:4–6For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a…
  • Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
  • Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask,…
  • Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
  • Jeremiah 35:18Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have…
  • Mark 7:9–13He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you…
  • Romans 13:7Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

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