Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Exodus 20:12, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
- Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
- 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 l…
- Mark 7:10
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
- Proverbs 23:22
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
- Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
- Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
- Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
- Matthew 19:19
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
- Luke 18:20
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
- Exodus 21:17
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
More to meet God in Exodus
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.