Ephesians 6:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ CHILDREN, OBEY your parents in the Lord [as His representatives], for this is just and right.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Common English Bible

¹ As for children, obey your parents in the Lord, because it is right.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

Ephesians 6:1 Cross References

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:

Genesis 37:13

And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.

Genesis 48:12

And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Genesis 50:12

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

Nehemiah 9:13

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

Esther 2:20

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

Job 33:27

He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; And I hate every false way. פ PE

Psalm 119:75

I know, O LORD, that thy judgements are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

Psalm 19:8

The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Proverbs 1:8

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

Proverbs 23:22

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

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 his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

Jeremiah 35:14

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed, and unto this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; and ye have not hearkened unto me.

Jeremiah 35:18

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;

Jeremiah 35:8

And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

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, mad the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.

Leviticus 19:3

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Luke 2:51

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

Romans 12:2

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

Romans 16:2

that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a succourer of many, and of mine own self.

Romans 7:12

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them:

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to shew piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

1 Peter 2:13

Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Ruth 3:5

And she said unto her, All that thou sayest I will do.

1 Samuel 17:20

And David rose up 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 place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.