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Proverbs 1:8-9 advises: “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.” This passage highlights the lifelong benefits of heeding parental guidance, portraying it as valuable and honorable.
Honoring parents is a commandment with rich rewards, reflecting gratitude and respect for their sacrificial love. Here are verses that affirm the importance of honoring parents, embodying love, obedience, and honor in family relationships.
Honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise, so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth” (Ephesians 6:1-3). Honoring parents is the only command in Scripture that promises long life as a reward.
For some years I’ve pondered the question: How should we honor our parents as adults? We veterans of Sunday School learned the Ten Commandments, and the fifth states, 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.” (Ex 20:12, ESV)
Meaning of 'Do Not Provoke Your Children'. "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."
I believe it is possible to honor your parents even after they’re gone. You say, “How can I honor, or reverence, my parents who have died?” First, we reverence our deceased parents through the way we talk about them. What we say about our parents either honors or dishonors them. Leviticus 20:9 says we’re not to curse our ...
The fourth Commandment is: Honor thy father and thy mother. Q. 1258. What does the word "honor" in this commandment include? A. The word "honor" in this commandment includes the doing...
