Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
A proverb about the lasting power of early training: wisdom about how life usually goes, not a guarantee about any one child.
Exodus 20:12
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
The commandment to honor your father and mother. Honor is not obeying someone into harm; no one is asked to accept abuse.
KJVExodus 20:12 in context
9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 13Thou shalt not kill. 14Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15Thou shalt not steal.
Israel’s rescue from slavery in Egypt, the covenant at Sinai and the journey through the wilderness.
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