Ephesians 6:1

Children And Parents

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² Honour thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),

Obey Your Parents

To the Lord

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 23:22

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Proverbs 1:8

My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had hearkened unto his father and his mother and had gone to Padanaram;

Genesis 37:13

And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the sheep in Shechem? Come and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.

Leviticus 19:3

Ye shall fear, every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths. I AM your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18

When anyone has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them,

1 Samuel 17:20

And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took and went with his burden as Jesse had commanded him, and he came to the trench as the host was going forth in battle array, and they had already sounded the alarm for the battle.

Nehemiah 9:13

Thou didst come down upon Mount Sinai and didst speak with them from heaven and didst give them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

Esther 2:20

Esther had not yet declared her birth nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her; for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai as when she was being brought up with him.

Job 33:27

He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me;

Psalm 19:8

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I have esteemed all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I have hated every false way.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises the teaching of his mother, the ravens shall pluck it out of the river, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Jeremiah 35:14

The word of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, was not moved; 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 did not hearken unto me.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise that he might understand this? and prudent that he might know this? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the rebellious shall fall therein.

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them, but his mother kept all these things in her heart.

Romans 7:12

So the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul that ye may experience what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

Romans 16:2

that ye receive her in the Lord as a worthy saint, and that ye assist her in whatever thing in which she has need of you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Ephesians 6:5-6

Slaves, be obedient to those that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto the Christ,

Colossians 3:16-17

Let the word of the Christ dwell in you in abundance in all wisdom, teaching you and exhorting you one to another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with grace singing in your hearts unto the Lord.

Colossians 3:20-25

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.

1 Peter 2:13

Therefore, be subject to every human ordinance that is of the Lord, whether it be to a king or to a superior,