Ephesians 6:2 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τίμα	tima	do honor	G5091 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
πατέρα	patera	Father	G3962 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
μητέρα,	mētera	mother,	G3384 →
ἥτις	hētis	which	G3748 →
ἐστὶν	estin	is	G1510 →
ἐντολὴ	entolē	[the] commandment	G1785 →
πρώτη	prōtē	first	G4413 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
ἐπαγγελίᾳ,	epangelia	a promise,	G1860 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
leads to
- Ephesians 6:1–3
  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- Colossians 3:20
  Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 5:16
  Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the…
- Mark 7:10
  For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
Through
Malachi 1:6
“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…
leads to
- Luke 6:46
  Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
- Isaiah 1:2
  Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
- John 13:13–17
  You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.
- Exodus 20:12
  Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Matthew 15:4–6For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.Malachi 1:6“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?’Mark 7:9–13He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.Jeremiah 35:18Then 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,Luke 18:20You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”Romans 13:7Pay 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.

Quoted here
Exodus 20:12
'Honour thy father and mother': Paul explicitly quotes the OT nine verses before the armor passage; the chapter is saturated with OT citation.
public-domain commentaries in agreement; cross-checked against the UBS apparatus

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