Ephesians 6:2
Good News Translation
"Respect your father and mother" is the first commandment that has a promise added:

New Revised Standard Version
“Honor your father and mother”—this is the first commandment with a promise:

Contemporary English Version
"Obey your father and your mother,

New American Bible
“Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:

Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Proverbs 20:20 He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Jeremiah 35:18 And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts, and have done all that he commanded you:

Ezekiel 22:7 They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

Malachi 1:6 The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 15:4-6 Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. . . .

Mark 7:9-13 And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition. . . .

Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

Context
Children and Parents
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just. 2Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise: 3That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.…
Cross References
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Deuteronomy 5:16
Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Jeremiah 35:7
Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow reed, nor plant vineyards, nor have any: but you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may live many days upon the face of the earth, in which you are strangers.

Ephesians 6:3
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.

1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Ephesians 6:1
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