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#### Shorter Catechism
<span class="q">Q 64.</span> What is required in the fifth commandment?
<span class="q">A.</span> The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honor, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.[^fnref:wsc1]
[^fnref:wsc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Romans 13:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p45013001.05-1"><span class="chapter-num" id="v45013001-1">13:1 </span>Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.</p> </div><h5>Romans 13:7</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45013007.01-2">Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 5:21-22</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49005021.01-3">submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.</p> <p id="p49005022.04-3">Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 5:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49005024.01-4">Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 6:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p49006001.04-5"><span class="chapter-num" id="v49006001-5">6:1 </span>Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 6:4-5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49006004.01-6">Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.</p> <p id="p49006005.04-6">Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 6:9</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49006009.01-7">Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.</p> </div><h5>1 Peter 2:17</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p60002017.01-8">Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
#### Larger Catechism
<span class="q">Q 126.</span> What is the general scope of the fifth commandment?
<span class="q">A.</span> The general scope of the fifth commandment is, the performance of those duties which we mutually owe in our several relations, as inferiors, superiors, or equals.[^fnref:wlc1]
[^fnref:wlc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Ephesians 5:21</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49005021.01-1">submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.</p> </div><h5>1 Peter 2:17</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p60002017.01-2">Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.</p> </div><h5>Romans 12:10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45012010.01-3">Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.</p> </div><h5>Romans 13:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p45013001.05-4"><span class="chapter-num" id="v45013001-4">13:1 </span>Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.</p> </div><h5>Romans 13:7</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45013007.01-5">Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 5:22</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p49005022.04-6">Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 5:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49005024.01-7">Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 6:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p49006001.04-8"><span class="chapter-num" id="v49006001-8">6:1 </span>Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 6:4-5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49006004.01-9">Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.</p> <p id="p49006005.04-9">Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 6:9</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49006009.01-10">Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>