Ephesians 6:1

Children And Parents

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

Obey Your Parents

To the Lord

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother;

Genesis 28:7

and Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan-aram;

Genesis 37:13

And Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.

Leviticus 19:3

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him he will not listen to them,

1 Samuel 17:20

And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and got up and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the barricade, and to the army which was going out to fight, and shouted for the battle.

Nehemiah 9:13

And You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from Heaven, and gave them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.

Esther 2:20

Esther had not yet revealed her kindred nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her. For Esther obeyed the command of Mordecai as she did when she was brought up with him.

Job 33:27

He will observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me,

Psalm 19:8

The Precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the Commandments of Jehovah are pure, giving light to the eyes.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are right, and that You have afflicted me in faithfulness.

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I count all Your Commandments concerning all things to be right; I hate 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 to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Jeremiah 35:14

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are done. For to this day they do not drink, but obey their father's commandment. But I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you did not listen to Me.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.

Luke 2:51

And He went with them and came to Nazareth, and He was subject to them. But His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Romans 7:12

So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

Romans 16:2

that you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you may assist her in whatever business she has need of you. For she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.

Ephesians 6:5-6

Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

Colossians 3:16-17

Let 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.

Colossians 3:20-25

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

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

1 Peter 2:13

Then be in obedience to every ordinance of men, because of the Lord, whether to a king as supreme,