Ephesians 6:1

Children And Parents

¹ Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. ² Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

Obey Your Parents

To the Lord

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

Proverbs 23:22

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 1:8

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

Genesis 28:7

And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;

Genesis 37:13

And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

Leviticus 19:3

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

1 Samuel 17:20

And David got up early in the morning, and, giving the sheep into the care of a keeper, took the things and went as Jesse had said; and he came to the lines where the carts were, when the army was going out to the fight giving their war-cry.

Nehemiah 9:13

And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

Esther 2:20

Esther had still said nothing of her family or her people, as Mordecai had given her orders; for Esther did what Mordecai said, as when she was living with him.

Job 33:27

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

Psalm 19:8

The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

Psalm 119:75

I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

Psalm 119:128

Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

Jeremiah 35:14

The orders which Jonadab, the son of Rechab, gave to his sons to take no wine, are done, and to this day they take no wine, for they do the orders of their father: but I have sent my words to you, getting up early and sending them, and you have not given ear to me.

Hosea 14:9

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth; and did as he was ordered: and his mother kept all these words in her heart.

Romans 7:12

But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

Romans 12:2

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Romans 16:2

That you will take her in kindly, after the way of the saints, as one who is the Lord's, and give her help in anything in which she may have need of you: because she has been a help to a great number and to myself.

1 Corinthians 15:58

For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

Ephesians 6:5-6

Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;

Colossians 3:16-17

Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

Colossians 3:20-25

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

1 Peter 2:13

Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,