honor parents
Revere your elders
Honor parents is a biblical injunction—the fifth of the Ten Commandments—to treat one's father and mother with respect and care.
The phrase encompasses obedience in childhood and providing for aging parents later: Honor your father and mother that your days may be long.
The command appears across religious traditions and underlies cultural expectations about filial duty.
- respectRegard with honor
- pay respectShow admiration formally
- obeyFollow commands given
- filialOf sons or daughters
- filial pietyRespect owed to parents
reverence · elders · old age · family · family values · gratitude · duty · golden rule · tradition · ancestors · blood ties · mother · mother's love · father · father figure · loyalty · care · nursing home
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