Honor your father and mother

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Honor your father and mother

• This is the first commandment with a promise
• (ESV)

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The first commandment with a promise

• Eph 61-4 Children, obey your parents in the
  Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honor your father and
  mother" (this is the first commandment with a
  promise), 3 "that it may go well with you and
  that you may live long in the land." 4 Fathers,
  do not provoke your children to anger, but bring
  them up in the discipline and instruction of the
  Lord. ESV

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The first commandment with a promise

• Prov 3017
• The eye that mocks a father,
• that scorns obedience to a mother,
• will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley,
• will be eaten by the vultures.
• NIV

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The first commandment with a promise
Rom 128-31 28 Furthermore, since they did not
think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of
God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do
what ought not to be done. 29 They have become
filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed
and depravity. They are full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and
boastful they invent ways of doing evil they
disobey their parents 31 they are senseless,
faithless, heartless, ruthless. NIV
5
The first commandment with a promise
1 Sam 1530-31 30 Then he said, "I have sinned
yet honor me now before the elders of my people
and before Israel, and return with me, that I may
bow before the LORD your God." 31 So Samuel
turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the
LORD. ESV
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The first commandment with a promise
Prov 39-10 9 Honor the LORD with your wealth
and with the firstfruits of all your produce
10 then your barns will be filled with
plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
ESV
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The first commandment with a promise
Matt 154-6 4 For God said, 'Honor your father
and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or
mother must be put to death.' 5 But you say
that if a man says to his father or mother,
'Whatever help you might otherwise have received
from me is a gift devoted to God,' 6 he is not to
'honor his father' with it. Thus you nullify the
word of God for the sake of your tradition. NIV
8
The first commandment with a promise
Prov 2322 Listen to your father, who gave you
life, and do not despise your mother when she is
old. NIV
9
The first commandment with a promise
Prov 101 The proverbs of Solomon A wise son
brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief
to his mother. NIV
10
The first commandment with a promise
Prov 1520 A wise son brings joy to his
father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
NIV
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The first commandment with a promise
The wise man built his house upon the rock The
foolish man built his house upon the sand (Matt
724-27)
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The first commandment with a promise
Prov 1721 To have a fool for a son brings
grief there is no joy for the father of a fool.
NIV
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The first commandment with a promise
Prov 1725 A foolish son brings grief to his
father and bitterness to the one who bore him.
NIV
14
The first commandment with a promise
James 313 Who is wise and understanding among
you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds
done in the humility that comes from wisdom. NIV
15
The first commandment with a promise
Prov 293 A man who loves wisdom brings joy to
his father, but a companion of prostitutes
squanders his wealth. NIV
16
The first commandment with a promise
Prov 287 He who keeps the law is a discerning
son, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his
father. NIV
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The first commandment with a promise
Prov 2324-25 The father of a righteous man has
great joy he who has a wise son delights in him.
May your father and mother be glad may she who
gave you birth rejoice! NIV