Catechisma

The Ten Commandments

Q7. What is the Fourth Commandment?

Honor your father and your mother.

Scripture Proofs — King James Version

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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.

Deuteronomy 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.

Read Luther’s expanded teaching

From the Large Catechism (1529)