Ephesians 6:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Τὰ τέκνα, ὑπακούετε τοῖς γονεῦσιν ὑμῶν ἐν Κυρίῳ: τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν δίκαιον.

Transliteration

The tekna, hypakouete to the goneusin of you in Kyriō: this gar estin dikaion.

Grammar Details

• *tekna*: nominative, neuter, plural - children
• *hypakouete*: present imperative, 2nd person plural - obey/be obedient [continuous command]
• *goneusin*: dative, masculine, plural - parents
• *Kyriō*: dative, masculine, singular - Lord/master
• *gar*: conjunction - for/because [explanatory]
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *dikaion*: nominative, neuter, singular - righteous/just/proper

Word Meanings

• *tekna*: children/offspring
• *hypakouete*: obey/submit to/listen to
• *Kyriō*: Lord/Master [divine title]
• *dikaion*: righteous/just/proper/correct

Referenced Verses

• Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, 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 unto the Lord. 21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; 24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
• 1 Tim 5:4 : 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
• Eph 6:5-6 : 5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; 6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the 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 in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by 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, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
• Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless 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 keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Deut 21:18 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
• Job 33:27 : 27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, 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 was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
• 1 Pet 2:13 : 13 {G3767} Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
• Rom 16:2 : 2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
• 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• Rom 7:12 : 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, 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; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
• Ps 19:8 : 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
• Ps 119:75 : 75 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
• Gen 28:7 : 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
• Gen 37:13 : 13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed 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 trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and 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 judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
• Esth 2:20 : 20 Esther had not yet shewed 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.