Ephesians 6:1

American Standard Version (1901)

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
  • Col 3:20-25 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. 21 Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord: [ 23 whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men; 24 knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ. 25 For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
  • 1 Tim 5:4 : 4 But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
  • Eph 6:5-6 : 5 Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; 6 not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
  • Col 3:16-17 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God. 17 And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts concerning all [things] to be right; [And] I hate every false way.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
  • Deut 21:18 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all [these] sayings in her heart.
  • 1 Pet 2:13 : 13 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
  • Rom 16:2 : 2 that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
  • Jer 35:14 : 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and unto this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; and ye have not hearkened unto me.
  • Ps 19:8 : 8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.
  • Ps 119:75 : 75 I know, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
  • Gen 28:7 : 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:
  • Gen 37:13 : 13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Are not thy brethren feeding the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
  • 1 Sam 17:20 : 20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
  • Esth 2:20 : 20 Esther had not yet made known her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

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