13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 3 earlier texts.

• Exod 20:12 · exact_quote
  "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
  Jesus quotes the fifth commandment: honor father and mother
• Exod 21:17 · exact_quote
  "And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death."
  Jesus quotes Exodus: cursing father or mother
• Deut 5:16 · exact_quote
  "Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
  Deuteronomy: honor your father and mother — Jesus confronts tradition

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Holiness
• Love
• Obedience and Disobedience

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Tim 5:4 — But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
• Col 3:20 — Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
• Deut 5:16 — Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Deut 5:16 — Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Deut 21:18 — If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
• Deut 27:16 — Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Deut 27:16 — Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Eph 6:1 — Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
• Eph 6:2 — Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
• Exod 20:12 — Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Exod 20:12 — Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Exod 21:17 — And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
• Lev 19:3 — Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Lev 19:3 — Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Lev 20:9 — For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
• Lev 20:9 — For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
• Mal 1:6 — A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my
• Mark 7:10 — For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
• Matt 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
• Matt 19:19 — Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Num 30:5 — But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disal
• Prov 20:20 — Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
• Prov 20:20 — Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
• Prov 23:22 — Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
• Prov 28:24 — Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
• Rom 3:31 — Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.