Ephesians 6:1

Children And Parents

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. ² Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with 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 to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Genesis 28:7

And that Jacob obeyed his father, and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;

Genesis 37:13

And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send thee to 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 the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man shall have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not hearken to them:

1 Samuel 17:20

And David rose early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.

Nehemiah 9:13

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spokest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

Esther 2:20

Esther had not yet showed her kindred, nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther performed the commandment of Mordecai, as when she was brought up with him.

Job 33:27

He looketh upon men, and if any shall say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

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 esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocketh at its father, and despiseth to obey its 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, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for to this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not to me.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

Luke 2:51

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

Romans 7:12

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

Romans 16:2

That ye receive her in the Lord, as it becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succorer of many, and of myself also.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Ephesians 6:5-6

Servants, be obedient to them that are 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 hath children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

1 Peter 2:13

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;