Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on the land which the LORD your God gives you. If you begin to put up a house, and lay the foundation wrong, or to build a ship, and make a mistake in laying the keel, you'll have to take it all down and begin again. Oh, it is very important to begin right! It is so in everything. And it is so in trying to do our duty to our neighbour. The Fifth Commandment shows us how we must begin to do this. We must begin at home. You show me a boy or girl who is not a good son or daughter, who does not honour father and mother, and I will show you one who will not make a good man or woman. (R. Newton, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. |
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