Cross references
Ephesians 6:2
“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
Ephesians 6:2 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 8 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 20:12 (88 votes) and Deuteronomy 27:16 (20 votes). 26 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Genesis 37 to Hebrews 12.
Which verses does Ephesians 6:2 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Exodus 20:1288 votes
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 27:1620 votes
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Matthew 15:4–613 votes
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ …
- Proverbs 20:2011 votes
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
- Ezekiel 22:79 votes
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Malachi 1:69 votes
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
- Jeremiah 35:188 votes
Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,
- Mark 7:9–138 votes
He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ …
- Romans 13:73 votes
Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Which verses point to Ephesians 6:2?
The 10 strongest of 26.