Command 26: Honor Your Parents
Bible verses for meditation
In addition to meditation on Matthew 15:4, meditating on the verses below will provide you with further insight and understanding of Christ’s command: Honor Your Parents.
Colossians 3:20
“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
Ephesians 6:1–3
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
Proverbs 6:20–22
“My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.”
I Peter 5:5
“Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”
Proverbs 10:1
“The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
Exodus 21:15, 17
“He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. … He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.”