Ephesians 6:1

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Genesis 28:7

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

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 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 to him according as he commanded them:

Nehemiah 9:13

You came down also 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 showed 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 looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Psalm 119:128

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

Psalm 119:75

I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.

Psalm 19:8

The statutes 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 your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

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.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:

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 you listened not to me.

Jeremiah 35:18

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

Jeremiah 35:8

Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he has 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, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

Leviticus 19:3

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

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 12:2

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

Romans 16:2

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

Romans 7:12

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

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is not in 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 that, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them:

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow have 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 it be to the king, as supreme;

Ruth 3:5

And she said to her, All that you say to me 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 trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.