Verse 1

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:20 : 20 Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
  • Col 3:20-25 : 20 the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord; 21 the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged. 22 The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God; 23 and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men, 24 having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve; 25 and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.
  • 1 Tim 5:4 : 4 and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
  • Eph 6:5-6 : 5 The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ; 6 not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,
  • Col 3:16-17 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord; 17 and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, `do' all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who `is' wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 A generation `is', that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 `Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I `am' Jehovah your God.
  • Deut 21:18 : 18 `When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,
  • 1 Pet 2:13 : 13 Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,
  • Rom 16:2 : 2 that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you -- for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 so that the law, indeed, `is' holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
  • Jer 35:14 : 14 Performed have been the words of Jonadab son of Rechab, when he commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk unto this day, for they have obeyed the command of their father; and I -- I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking, and ye have not hearkened unto Me.
  • Ps 19:8 : 8 The precepts of Jehovah `are' upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah `is' pure, enlightening the eyes,
  • Ps 119:75 : 75 I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous `are' Thy judgments, And `in' faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.
  • Gen 28:7 : 7 that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram --
  • Gen 37:13 : 13 and Israel saith unto Joseph, `Are not thy brethren feeding in Shechem? come, and I send thee unto them;' and he saith to him, `Here `am' I;'
  • 1 Sam 17:20 : 20 And David riseth early in the morning, and leaveth the flock to a keeper, and lifteth up, and goeth, as Jesse commanded him, and he cometh in to the path, and to the force which is going out unto the rank, and they have shouted for battle;
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 `And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands.
  • Esth 2:20 : 20 Esther is not declaring her kindred and her people, as Mordecai hath laid a charge upon her, and the saying of Mordecai Esther is doing as when she was truly with him.