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| - Honor your father and your mother is one of the Ten Commandments, which are widely understood as moral imperatives by legal scholars, Jewish scholars, Catholic scholars, and Post-Reformation scholars. The Book of Exodus describes the Ten Commandments as being spoken by God to Moses, inscribed on two stone tablets by the finger of God, and later written on tablets by Moses. Honour your father and your mother so that you may live long in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you. – Exodus 20:12 (NJB) – Malachi 1:6-8 (NJB) – Catechism of the Catholic Church 2214
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| - Honor your father and your mother is one of the Ten Commandments, which are widely understood as moral imperatives by legal scholars, Jewish scholars, Catholic scholars, and Post-Reformation scholars. The Book of Exodus describes the Ten Commandments as being spoken by God to Moses, inscribed on two stone tablets by the finger of God, and later written on tablets by Moses. Honour your father and your mother so that you may live long in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you. – Exodus 20:12 (NJB) In the Torah, keeping this commandment was associated with individual benefit and with the ability of the nation of Israel to remain in the land to which God was leading them. Dishonoring parents by striking or cursing them was punishable by death. In the Talmud, the commandment to honor one's human parents is compared to honoring God. According to the prophet Malachi, God makes the analogy himself: "The son honours his father, the slave stands in awe of his master. But if I am indeed father, where is the honour due to me? And if I am indeed master, where is the awe due to me?" says Yahweh Sabaoth to you priests who despise my name. – Malachi 1:6-8 (NJB) In the gospels, Jesus affirmed the importance of honoring one's father and mother. Paul quotes the commandment in his letter to the church in Ephesus. In his letters to the Romans and Timothy, Paul describes disobedience to parents as a serious sin. According to the Catholic Catechism, the import of honoring father and mother is based on the divine origin of the parental role: The divine fatherhood is the source of human fatherhood. (Ephesians 3:14) This is the foundation of the honor owed to parents. … It is required by God's commandment. (Exodus 20:12) – Catechism of the Catholic Church 2214 The Post- Reformation theologian John Calvin also refers to the sacred origin of the role of human father, and comments that the commandment does not therefore depend on the particular worthiness of the parent.
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