Honor Your Father and Mother
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5th Commandment
5th Commandment
12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
What are your initial thoughts upon reading this Commandment? Please be honest. I am not going to go back and tell your parents what you say.
Personally, I remember - and at times still struggle with - this being a very hard thing to
The penalty for dishonoring your parents was substantial in that time. Exodus 21:15 ; 17
15 “Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
17 “Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
The New Bible Commentary 13:53–16:20 Further Responses to Jesus’ Public Ministry
To illustrate this point he referred to the way the OT principle of respect for parents (Ex. 20:12; 21:17) was being undermined by the rabbinic legislation which allowed a man to keep his property out of his parents’ reach by nominally dedicating it to God (while in practice retaining the use of it for himself). By this pious fraud, the OT provision for vows was cynically twisted to a purpose which infringed one of the most basic commandments of the law. (Note that the fifth commandment is introduced as what God said, not just as the law of Moses!)
13 And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
19 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’ ”
20 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’ ”
If parents, as authority figures within the home, are respected by children, then respect for authority figures within society at large will also follow.
T. Desmond Alexander, “Exodus,” in New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition, ed. D. A. Carson et al., 4th ed. (Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1994), 108.
