Honor your Father and your Mother

 

 Shared Values of the Old and New Testaments

The Universal Lawmaker (6) 

The Ten Commandments

5th Commandment

To honor your father and mother does not mean blind obedience, although it does very much relate to the ability to obey parents and respect authority. It means giving great weight - a holiness - to what your father and mother are here to do for you, even if done imperfectly and all are imperfect.  A child cannot develop properly, or take up their position in this world without being at peace or making peace with their parents and those who have come before them. The opposite of honoring is to curse, disrespect or scorn your father and your mother and that is certainly not acceptable in any society.  Even when

deserved, those who curse or scorn their parents are not really respected by others in this respect, because it is an unnatural thing (in their minds).  God will always work with you to overcome conditions like this because so much depends upon it. 

Exodus 20:12 (AMPC) 12 Regard (treat with honor, due obedience, and courtesy) your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land the Lord your God gives you.

Matthew 15:4 (AMPC) 4 For God commanded, Honor your father and your mother, and, He who curses or reviles or speaks evil of or abuses or treats improperly his father or mother, let him surely come to his end by death. 

10/4/2026