Ephesians 6:1

Children are to obey their parents in the Lord, for this is right. Such obedience is part of godly living and is inherently fitting.

Cross-references · 28

• Col 3:20–25Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
• Prov 23:22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
• Prov 6:20My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Prov 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Col 3:16–17Let 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.
• Deut 21:18If 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:
• Rom 12:2And 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.
• Lev 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• 1 Tim 5:4But 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.
• Eph 6:5–6Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
• Rom 7:12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
• Luke 2:51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
• Job 33:27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
• Prov 30:17The 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.
• 1 Pet 2:13Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
• Hos 14:9Who 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 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
• Gen 28:7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
• Ps 19:8The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
• Esth 2:20Esther 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.
• Rom 16:2That 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.
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, 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.
• Gen 37:13And 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.
• Neh 9:13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
• Jer 35:14The 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.
• 1 Sam 17:20And 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.
• Ps 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

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