Date: Apr. 10, 2024
Question
What does the fifth commandment require?
Answer
The fifth commandment requires us to respect and treat others, whether above, below, or equal to us, as their position or our relationship to them demands.
Reference Passages
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.
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.
21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives and Husbands
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Bondservants and Masters
5 Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,
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.
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
