Ephesians 6:1

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
  • Col 3:20-25 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
  • 1 Tim 5:4 : 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
  • Eph 6:5-6 : 5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; 6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, 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, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord. 17 Whatever you 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 consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 21:18 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
  • 1 Pet 2:13 : 13 Therefore subject 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, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 Therefore the law indeed 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 to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.
  • Ps 19:8 : 8 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
  • Ps 119:75 : 75 Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have 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 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."
  • 1 Sam 17:20 : 20 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 army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 "You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
  • Esth 2:20 : 20 Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

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