Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Ye children, be obedient unto your parents in the Lord, for this is right:
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Holman Bible
Children, obey
International Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
A Conservative Version
Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right.
American Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Amplified
Children, obey your parents in the Lord [that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives], for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline].
An Understandable Version
Children, you should obey your parents in the Lord [i.e., as part of your Christian responsibility], for this is the right thing to do.
Anderson New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Bible in Basic English
Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.
Common New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Children, obey your christian parents: for this is the law.
Darby Translation
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
Godbey New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Goodspeed New Testament
Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right.
John Wesley New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Honour
Julia Smith Translation
Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just.
King James 2000
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Modern King James verseion
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.
Moffatt New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right;
Montgomery New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
NET Bible
Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.
New Heart English Bible
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Noyes New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
Sawyer New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Children, obey your parents, as children of the Lord; for that is but right.
Webster
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Weymouth New Testament
Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.
Williams New Testament
Children, obey your parents, for this is right.
World English Bible
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Worrell New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
Worsley New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Youngs Literal Translation
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;
Themes
Children » Dishonouring parents » Filial obedience encouraged
Children » What children should do
Children » Should » Obey parents
Christian conduct » Fulfilling domestic duties
Obedience » Filial » Filial obedience encouraged
Interlinear
Touto
Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 6:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Children And Parents
1 Ye children, be obedient unto your parents in the Lord, for this is right: 2 Honour thy father and thy mother, - which indeed is the first commandment with promise,
Cross References
Proverbs 6:20
Observe thou, my son, the commandment of thy father, and do not decline from the instruction of thy mother:
Proverbs 23:22
Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.
Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, the correction of thy father, and do not reject the instruction of thy mother;
Genesis 28:7
And that Jacob hearkened unto his father and unto his mother, - and took his journey to Padan-aram.
Genesis 37:13
So Israel said unto Joseph Are not, thy brethren, feeding the flock in Shechem? Come on! and let me send thee unto them. And he said to him Behold me!
Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall, every one, revere, his father and his mother, And my sabbaths, shall ye observe, - I - Yahweh, am your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18
When a man hath a son, rebellious and insulting, who will not hearken to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, - though they chastise him, yet will not hearken unto them,
1 Samuel 17:20
So then David rose up early in the morning, and entrusted the sheep to a keeper, and took up the provisions and went his way, as Jesse had commanded him, - and came into the circular rampart, as, the force, was going forth into the ranks, and shouted for the fight.
Nehemiah 9:13
And, upon Mount Sinai, camest thou down, and spakest with them out of the heavens, - and gavest them just regulations, and faithful laws, good statutes and commandments.
Esther 2:20
Esther had not told of her kindred, nor her people, as, Mordecai, had laid charge upon her, - and, the command of Mordecai, Esther performed, like as when she was being brought up with him.
Job 33:27
He sang before men, and said, I sinned, and, uprightness, I perverted, yet he requited me not;
Psalm 19:8
The precepts of Yahweh, are right, Rejoicing the heart, The, commandment of Yahweh, is pure, Enlightening the eyes;
Psalm 119:75
I know, O Yahweh, that righteous are thy regulations, and, in faithfulness, didst thou afflict me.
Psalm 119:128
For this cause, all thy precepts concerning all things, I deem right, Every way of falsehood, I hate.
Proverbs 30:11
A generation! Its father, it revileth, and, its mother, it doth not bless.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocketh a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young of the eagle shall eat it.
Jeremiah 35:14
Confirmed are the words of Jonadab son of Rechab - which he commanded his sons that they should not drink, wine, and they have not drunk until this day, for they have hearkened unto the command of their father, But, I, have spoken unto you, betimes, speaking, and ye have not hearkened, unto me.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? intelligent, that he may take knowledge of them? For, straightforward, are the ways of Yahweh, and, the righteous, shall travel therein, but, transgressors, shall stumble therein.
Luke 2:51
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was submitting himself unto them. And, his mother, was closely observing all these things in her heart.
Romans 7:12
So that, the law, indeed, is holy, and the commandment, holy, and righteous and good.
Romans 12:2
And be not configuring yourselves unto this age, but be transforming yourselves by the renewing of your mind, to the end ye may be proving what is the thing willed by God - the good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 16:2
In order that ye may give her welcome in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and stand by her in any matter wherein she may have need of you; for, she also, hath proved to be a defender of many, and of my own self.
1 Corinthians 15:58
So, then, my beloved brethren, - become ye, steadfast, immovable, superabounding in the work of the Lord, at all times; knowing that, your toil, is not in vain in the Lord.
Ephesians 6:5-6
Ye servants, be obedient unto them who, after the flesh, are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto the Christ;
Colossians 3:16-17
Let, the word of the Christ, dwell within you richly, - in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with gratitude, raising song with your hearts unto God:
Colossians 3:20-25
Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;
1 Timothy 5:4
Howbeit, if, any widow, hath, children or grandchildren, let them be learning - first, unto their own house, to be shewing reverence, and, returns, to be making unto their progenitors; for, this, is acceptable before God;
1 Peter 2:13
Submit yourselves unto every human creation, for the Lord's sake, - whether unto a king, as one that protecteth,