Ephesians 6:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;
  • Col 3:20-25 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, lest they become discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things your earthly masters, not with eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing God. 23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men. 24 Knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance, for you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no partiality.
  • 1 Tim 5:4 : 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents, for this is good and acceptable before God.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And do not be conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • Eph 6:5-6 : 5 Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; 6 Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, 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 whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things I consider to be right; 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 curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 You shall respect every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
  • Deut 21:18 : 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me;
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
  • 1 Pet 2:13 : 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme,
  • Rom 16:2 : 2 That you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she needs from you: for she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 Therefore 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 to this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: yet I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened to 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 Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have 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 to Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.
  • 1 Sam 17:20 : 20 David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, took the provisions, and went as Jesse had commanded him; he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for battle.
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them just statutes and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
  • Esth 2:20 : 20 Esther had not yet revealed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther obeyed the commandment of Mordecai, just as when she was brought up with him.

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