START YOUR DAY RIGHT DAILY DEVOTION
(KJV) 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.
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER / EXODUS 20:12
This commandment includes acts of kindness, material support, respect and obedience to one’s parents (Ephesians 6:1-3; Colossians 3:20). God forbids the use of unkind words, disrespectful attitudes and harmful actions.
- In Exodus 21:15, 17, God required any person who hit or cursed his father or mother to be put to death. This shows the importance God places on respect for parents (Ephesians 6:1).
- Related to this commandment is the parents’ responsibility to love their children and teach them what it means to know, love and follow God (Deuteronomy 4:9; 6:6-7; Ephesians 6:4).
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Some of our Post That Might Interest You, All Out of the Current Book / Chapter
- REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY / EXODUS 20:8
- NOT MISUSE THE NAME OF THE LORD / EXODUS 20:7
- AN IDOL IN THE FORM OF ANYTHING / EXODUS 20:4
- YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME / EXODUS 20:3
- THE TEN COMMANDMENTS / EXODUS 20:1-17
- THUNDER AND LIGHTNING / EXODUS 19:16
- A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND A HOLY NATION / EXODUS 19:6
- IF YOU OBEY ME FULLY – MY TREASURED POSSESSION / EXODUS 19:5
- I CARRIED YOU ON EAGLES’ WINGS / EXODUS 19:4
- THE DESERT OF SINAI / EXODUS 19:1
- SELECT CAPABLE MEN / EXODUS 18:21
- NOW I KNOW THAT THE LORD IS GREATER / EXODUS 18:11
- JETHRO RECEIVED HER / EXODUS 18:2-5
- MOSES HELD UP HIS HANDS / EXODUS 17:11
- JOSHUA / EXODUS 17:9
- STRIKE THE ROCK / EXODUS 17:6
- RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY / EXODUS 16:30
- EACH MORNING / EXODUS 16:21
- BREAD FROM HEAVEN – IN THIS WAY I WILL TEST THEM / EXODUS 16:4
- GRUMBLED AGAINST MOSES / EXODUS 16:2
- I AM THE LORD WHO HEALS YOU / EXODUS 15:26
- PROPHETESS / EXODUS 15:20
- THEN MOSES SANG THIS SONG / EXODUS 15:1-18
- FEARED THE LORD AND PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM / EXODUS 14:13
- THE WATER FLOWED BACK / EXODUS 14:28
- THROUGH THE SEA ON DRY GROUND – A WALL OF WATER ON THEIR RIGHT AND ON THEIR LEFT / EXODUS 14:21-22
- THE PILLAR OF CLOUD / EXODUS 14:19-20
- THE LORD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU / EXODUS 14:14
- A PILLAR OF CLOUD / EXODUS 13:21
- NOTHING WITH YEAST IN IT IS TO BE SEEN / EXODUS 13:7
- CONSECRATE TO ME EVERY FIRSTBORN MALE / EXODUS 13:1-2
- WHAT DOES THIS CEREMONY MEAN TO YOU? / EXODUS 12:26-27
- THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD / EXODUS 12:17
- MUST BE CUT OFF FROM ISRAEL / EXODUS 12:15
- A LASTING ORDINANCE / EXODUS 12:14
- YOUR CLOAK TUCKED INTO YOUR BELT YOUR SANDALS ON YOUR FEET / EXODUS 12:11
- BITTER HERBS AND BREAD MADE WITHOUT YEAST / EXODUS 12:8
- THEY ARE TO TAKE SOME OF THE BLOOD / EXODUS 12:7
- THE FIRST MONTH OF YOUR YEAR / EXODUS 12:1-2
- FIRSTBORN … WILL DIE / EXODUS 11:5
- A FESTIVAL / EXODUS 10:9
- YOU MAY TELL YOUR CHILDREN / EXODUS 10:1-2
- I HAVE RAISED YOU UP FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE / EXODUS 9:15-16
- LIVETOCK OF THE EGYPTIANS / EXODUS 9:6
- YOUR CATTLE / EXODUS 9:2-3
- THIS IS THE FINGER OF GOD / EXODUS 8:18-19
- FROGS / EXODUS 8:2
- HE STRUCK THE WATER / EXODUS 7:20
- IT BECAME A SNAKE / EXODUS 7:12
- I WILL HARDEN PHARAOH’S HEART / EXODUS 7:3-4
- THEY DID NOT LISTEN TO HIM / EXODUS 6:9
- I WILL TAKE YOU AS MY OWN PEOPLE AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD / EXODUS 6:7
- BY MY NAME THE LORD I DID NOT MAKE MYSELF KNOW TO THEM / EXODUS 6:3
- YOU HAVE NOT RESCUED YOUR PEOPLE AT ALL / EXODUS 5:23
- IS THIS WHY YOU SENT ME? / EXODUS 5:22
- THIS IS WHAT THE LORD – THE GOD OF ISRAEL SAYS / EXODUS 5:1
- THE LORD WAS ABOUT TO KILL HIM / EXODUS 4:24
- ISRAEL MY FIRSTBORN / EXODUS 4:22
- WHO MAKES HIM BLIND? / EXODUS 4:11
- I AM SLOW OF SPEECH / EXODUS 4:10
- STAFF … BECAME A SNAKE / EXODUS 4:2-3
- ASK … PLUNDER THE EGYPTIANS / EXODUS 3:22
- I AM WHO I AM / EXODUS 3:14
- MILK AND HONEY / EXODUS 3:8
- SEEN THE MISERY OF MY PEOPLE / EXODUS 3:7
- HOLY GROUND / EXODUS 3:5
- THE ANGEL OF THE LORD / EXODUS 3:2
- MOSES WAS TENDING THE FLOCK / EXODUS 3:1
- THEIR CRY WENT UP TO GOD / EXODUS 2:23
- MIDIAN / EXODUS 2:15
- KILLED THE EGYPTIAN / EXODUS 2:12
- MOSES / EXODUS 2:11
- A SON / EXODUS 2:1-2
- SLAVE MASTERS OVER THEM TO OPPRES THEM / EXODUS 1:11
- WHO DID NOT KNOW ABOUT JOSEPH / EXODUS 1:8
- MULTIPLIED GREATLEY / EXODUS 1:6-7
- THE SONS OF ISRAEL / EXODUS 1:1-5
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Thank you for taking the time to read my Daily Devotion
Blessings,
Margarita & Stace
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HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER / EXODUS 20:12
DescriptionThis commandment includes acts of kindness, material support, respect and obedience to one’s parents (Ephesians 6:1-3; Colossians 3:20).
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Margarita Crews
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