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Exodus 20:12 and Ephesians 6:2 -4 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth. And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. The Fifth Commandment is like the first Commandment which was about learning to trust God as our source of life and love and identity and provision, which sets the course for our ongoing relationship with God. There we found our identity as his child made in his Image, and we Honoured the use of his name, then rested in mutual love and collaboration with him. So likewise here, the fifth Commandment sets the course for our relationships with other people, starting with a proper relationship with our parents so that life will go well with us. This Commandment is the foundation for our understanding of the nature of all authority in all its forms. Here we can learn to know who we are, and it works both ways, with parents