Love your parents = long life?

Question

I just saw this biblical snippet: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

No doubt it's open to hundreds of different interpretations. It looks to me like it says that if you honor your parents, you will live a long life. As in this life, NOT the afterlife.

Is that correct? If so, how does one explain the loving children who die young? Or the ******* who live into their 90's? If the answer is that there are exceptions, then doesn't that invalidate this "promise?"

This version of the quote "..."so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth" does change things slightly, but it still refers to a LONG life.

Answer 1

ha ha - my mom used to quote that as a death threat when she was mad at us (jokingly of course).

Answer 2

It's true. Ths doesn't account for everyone who lived to be old but it's true.

Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother"—which is the first commandment with a promise— "so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."

Answer 3

At those a while, I could accept as true with your mom and dad. you're becoming up too quickly. while he turns 18, are you going to renounce having intercourse, reason then it is going to likely be statutory rape. after all, it quite is in simple terms too large a distinction at that age. Plus, long distance relationships harldy ever artwork, so your mom and dad are in all risk attempting to guard you from the heartbreak of gaining knowledge of he has a sparkling older female pal. base line is you're thoroughly based on your mom and dad for each little thing you have. The could make the regulations till you're waiting to head out. Is that what you want?

Answer 4

Rune Amok, you are correct in saying it has a thousand interpretations. For me from one who was very angry at her mothers abandonment, I spent many years afraid of her choices, and as a resort afraid that I would become her.
The irony is the choices that I made afraid of myself, ended up with me walking the same path of my mother's with my own child.
It took me realizing that my mother deserved respect, because she was a woman who did the best she could with the circumstances she was under. It was then, I was able to forgive my mother, and be capable of loving myself, rather than being afraid.
So to me this is what this passage is saying that basically to respect and love thy mother and father is saying that this is the path to god, and within this path the days of your life will be long from the joy it brings. I know for me, it has been that way. Perhaps you already know this with your own being, but some dont, and need a book to tell them.
I of course do not follow a book, but my heart. But I still understand the book.
I wish you well.

Answer 5

Those promises are to believers not the a--holes you speak of, and what of children who die young that has nothing to do with the promise GOD has given us.
It does refer to this life here on earth, what of it?

There are no exceptions.

Answer 6

Well that must be true.

Leviticus 20:9. any child who curses his mother or his father shall be put to death.

Now that is a little harsh, huh.

Answer 7

Just because one dies young doesn't mean they haven't already lived "their life". You don't know if they have already met their life's expected age. Maybe, just maybe, they served their purpose.

Answer 8

Should kids love the ones that sexually abuse them too?

Answer 9

if so why have bush and blair not seen this paragraph.