Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just.
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
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye children, be obedient unto 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
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 6:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Children And Parents
1 Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just. 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;)
Cross References
Proverbs 6:20
My son, watch the commands of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the laws of thy mother:
Proverbs 23:22
Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.
Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:
Genesis 28:7
And Jacob will hear to his father, and to his mother, and will go to Padan Aram.
Genesis 37:13
And Israel will say to Joseph, Are not thy brethren feeding in Shechem? Come, and I will send thee to them. And he will say, Behold me.
Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18
If there shall be to a man a son stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they chastised him, and he will not hear to them:
1 Samuel 17:20
And David will rise early in the morning, and will cast the sheep upon a watcher, and he will lift up and go as Jesse commanded him; and he will come to the track, and the army going forth to the array and they shouted in the war.
Nehemiah 9:13
And upon mount Sinai thou camest down, and speaking with them from the heavens, and thou wilt give to them right judgments, and laws of truth, good laws and commands
Esther 2:20
And Esther not announcing her kindred and her people, as Mordecai commanded to her: and Esther did the saying of Mordecai as when she was in bringing up with him.
Job 33:27
He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;
Psalm 19:8
The mandates of Jehovah are straight, rejoicing the heart: the command of Jehovah pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalm 119:75
I knew, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are justice, and in truth thou didst humble me.
Psalm 119:128
For this I made straight all thy charges, all: hated every way of falsehood.
Proverbs 30:11
A generation will curse its father, and will not bless its mother.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye shall mock to his father, and despise to obey the mother, the ravens of the valley shall bore it out and the sons of the eagle shall eat it
Jeremiah 35:14
The words of Jonadab son of Rechab who commanded his sons not to drink wine, were raised up; and they drank not even to this clay, for they heard the command of their father: and spake to you, rising early and speaking; and ye heard not to me.
Hosea 14:9
Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.
Luke 2:51
And he went dawn with them, and came to Nazareth, and was placed under them : and his mother kept all these words in her heart.
Romans 7:12
Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good.
Romans 12:2
And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.
Romans 16:2
That ye receive her in the Lord, worthy of the holy ones, and encourage her in whatever thing she have need of you: for she also has been the rule of many, and of myself.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.
Ephesians 6:5-6
Servants, listen to lords according to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ;
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.
Colossians 3:20-25
Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:4
And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.
1 Peter 2:13
Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority;