Ephesians 6:1

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 1:8

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

Deuteronomy 21:18

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,

Leviticus 19:3

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Romans 7:12

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

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Job 33:27

He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.

1 Peter 2:13

Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,

Hosea 14:9

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Proverbs 30:11

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

Psalm 19:8

the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Esther 2:20

Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Romans 16:2

that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Genesis 37:13

And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”

Jeremiah 35:14

The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.

Nehemiah 9:13

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

1 Samuel 17:20

And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.

Ruth 3:5

And she replied, “All that you say I will do.”

Jeremiah 35:8

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

Jeremiah 35:18

But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you,

Genesis 48:12

Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Genesis 50:12

Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,