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pagetitle: What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment, the more to enforce it?
date: February 19, 2020
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#### Shorter Catechism
<span class="q">Q 66.</span> What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
<span class="q">A.</span> The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and prosperity (as far as it shall serve for God's glory and their own good) to all such as keep this commandment.[^fnref:wsc1]
[^fnref:wsc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Exodus 20:12</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p02020012.01-1">“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</p> </div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p05005016.01-2">“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</p> </div><h5>Ephesians 6:2-3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49006002.01-3">“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
#### Larger Catechism
<span class="q">Q 133.</span> What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment, the more to enforce it?
<span class="q">A.</span> The reason annexed to the fifth commandment, in these words, That thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,[^fnref:wlc1] is an express promise of long life and prosperity, as far as it shall serve for God's glory and their own good, to all such as keep this commandment.[^fnref:wlc2]
[^fnref:wlc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Exodus 20:12</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p02020012.01-1">“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is giving you. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc2]: <div class="esv"><h5>Ephesians 6:2-3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49006002.01-1">“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”</p> </div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p05005016.01-2">“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</p> </div><h5>1 Kings 8:25</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p11008025.01-3">Now therefore, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’ (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>