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Etheridge Translation

Ephesians 6:2

Honour thy father and thy mother,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Mother;   Quotations and Allusions;   Reward;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Filial Honour;   Home;   Honour;   Mothers;   Parents;   Promises, Divine;   Respect;   Young People;   The Topic Concordance - Honor;   Parents;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children, Good;   Conduct, Christian;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ancestors;   Ethics;   Family;   Law;   Parents;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Authority;   Law;   Teach, Teacher;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Image;   Love, Brotherly;   Parents;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Colosse;   Father;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ephesians, Book of;   Family;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Commandment;   Ephesians Epistle to the;   Family;   Honour;   Ignatius;   Old Testament;   Promise;   Quotations;   Scripture;   Worldliness;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Corban;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Father;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Law;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephesians, Epistle to the;   Law in the New Testament;   Pauline Theology;   Quotations, New Testament;   Ten Commandments, the;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 13;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
King James Version (1611)
Honour thy father and mother, (which is the first commandement with promise,)
King James Version
Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
English Standard Version
"Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise),
New American Standard Bible
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the first commandment with a promise),
New Century Version
The command says, "Honor your father and mother." This is the first command that has a promise with it—
New American Standard Bible (1995)
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Legacy Standard Bible
Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Berean Standard Bible
"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Contemporary English Version
"Obey your father and your mother,
Complete Jewish Bible
"Honor your father and mother" — this is the first commandment that embodies a promise —
Darby Translation
Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
Easy-to-Read Version
The command says, "You must respect your father and mother." This is the first command that has a promise with it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Honour thy father & mother (which is the first commandement with promes)
George Lamsa Translation
This is the first commandment with promise: Honour thy father and mother;
Good News Translation
"Respect your father and mother" is the first commandment that has a promise added:
Lexham English Bible
"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Literal Translation
"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise, Ex. 20:12
Amplified Bible
HONOR [esteem, value as precious] YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER [and be respectful to them]—this is the first commandment with a promise—
American Standard Version
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
Bible in Basic English
Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),
Hebrew Names Version
"Honor your father and mother," which is the first mitzvah with a promise:
International Standard Version
"Honor your father and mother." This is a very important commandment with a promise:Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; 27:16; Jeremiah 35:18; Ezekiel 22:7; Malachi 1:6; Matthew 15:4; Mark 7:10;">[xr]
Murdock Translation
And the first commandment with promise, is this: Honor thy father and thy mother;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Honour thy father and mother (whiche is the first commaundement in promise)
English Revised Version
Honour thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
World English Bible
"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise) That it may be well with thee,
Weymouth's New Testament
"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Onoure thou thi fadir and thi modir, that is the firste maundement in biheest;
Update Bible Version
Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
Webster's Bible Translation
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise)
New English Translation
" Honor your father and mother, " which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,
New King James Version
"Honor your father and mother," Deuteronomy 5:16">[fn] which is the first commandment with promise:
New Living Translation
"Honor your father and mother." This is the first commandment with a promise:
New Life Bible
Respect your father and mother. This is the first Law given that had a promise.
New Revised Standard
"Honor your father and mother"—this is the first commandment with a promise:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Honour thy father and thy mother, - which indeed is the first commandment with promise,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:
Revised Standard Version
"Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise),
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Honoure thy father and mother that is the fyrst commaundement that hath eny promes
Young's Literal Translation
honour thy father and mother,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Honoure thy father and thy mother ( That is the first commaundement, that hath eny promes)
Mace New Testament (1729)
the first commandment with a promise annexed, is, "honour thy father and mother,
Simplified Cowboy Version
"Honor your father and mother." This is the first rule that has a promise attached to it.

Contextual Overview

1 Children, obey your parents in our Lord, for this is right; and this is the first commandment which promiseth. 2 Honour thy father and thy mother, 3 that it may be well with thee, and thy life be prolonged upon the earth. 4 Parents, make not your children angry, but make them to grow in the discipline and in the doctrine of our Lord. 5 Servants, be subject to your masters who are according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, and with simplicity of heart, as unto the Meshiha: 6 not in the sight of the eyes, as if you were pleasing men (only), but as the servants of Meshiha who do the will of Aloha. 7 And serve them from all your soul, in love, as unto our Lord, and not as unto men; 8 knowing that whatever good a man doeth he is rewarded by our Lord, whether he be a servant or a son of freedom. 9 9 So you, masters, [fn] do likewise to your servants; forgiving them a fault; [fn] for you know also that your Master is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 27:16, Proverbs 20:20, Jeremiah 35:18, Ezekiel 22:7, Malachi 1:6, Matthew 15:4-6, Mark 7:9-13, Romans 13:7

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:8 - the dead 1 Samuel 17:20 - left the sheep Proverbs 23:22 - Hearken Jeremiah 35:6 - Ye shall Matthew 19:19 - Honour Luke 2:51 - and was Luke 18:20 - Do not commit

Cross-References

1 Corinthians 7:39
The wife, so long as her husband liveth, is bound by the law; but if her husband shall die, she is free, that she may do what she willeth, only in our Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:18
And I will be to you a Father, And you shall be to me for sons and daughters, Saith the Lord, who holdeth all.
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of adultery, and sins which cease not, alluring souls that are not established. An heart have they which is disciplined in covetousness; sons of malediction,
1 John 2:16
For every thing that is in the world, is the lust of the body, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of the world. These which are not of the Father, but they are from the world itself.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Honour thy father and mother,.... This explains who parents are, and points at some branches of obedience due unto them; for they are not only to be loved, and to be feared, and reverenced, their corrections to be submitted to, offences against them to be acknowledged, their tempers to be bore with, and their infirmities covered; but they are to be honoured in thought, word, and gesture; they are to be highly thought of and esteemed; they are to be spoken to, and of, very honourably, and with great veneration and to be behaved to in a very respectful manner; and they are to be relieved, assisted, and maintained in comfortable way when aged, and in necessitous circumstances; and which may be chiefly designed. So the Jews explain כבוד, "the honour" due to parents, by, c. מאכיל, "giving them food, drink", and "clothing", unloosing their shoes, and leading them out and in x. Compare with this 1 Timothy 5:4

1 Timothy 5:4- :;

which is the first commandment with promise: it is the fifth commandment in the decalogue, but the first that has a promise annexed to it: it is reckoned by the Jews y the weightiest of the weightiest commands of the law; and the reward bestowed on it, is length of days, as follows.

x T. Hieros. Kiddushin, fol. 61. 2. T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 31. 1, 2. Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Kiddushin, c. 1. sect. 7. y Debarim Rabba, sect. 6. fol. 241. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Honour thy father and mother - see Exodus 20:12; compare notes on Matthew 15:4.

Which is the first commandment with promise - With a promise annexed to it. The promise was, that their days should be long in the land which the Lord their God would give them. It is not to be supposed that the observance of the four first commandments would not be attended with a blessing, but no particular blessing is promised. It is true, indeed, that there is a “general declaration” annexed to the second commandment, that God would show mercy to thousands of generations of them that loved him and that kept his commandments. But that is rather a declaration in regard to all the commands of God than a promise annexed to that specific commandment. It is an assurance that obedience to the law of God would be followed with blessings to a thousand generations, and is given in view of the first and second commandments together, because they related particularly to the honor that was due to God. But the promise in the fifth commandment is a “special promise.” It does not relate to obedience to God in general, but it is a particular assurance that they who honor their parents shall have a particular blessing as the result of that obedience.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ephesians 6:2. Honour thy fatherExodus 20:12; Exodus 20:12, &c., where this subject, together with the promises and threatenings connected with it, is particularly considered, and the reasons of the duty laid down at large.


 
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