Ephesians 6:1

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 6:20

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

Proverbs 1:8

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

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 who, when they have disciplined him, will not listen to them,

Leviticus 19:3

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

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home and to repay their parents. For this is good and acceptable before God.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and complete will of God.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pluck it out, and the young vultures will eat it.

Romans 7:12

So then, the law is holy and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Luke 2:51

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. But His mother kept all these words in her heart.

Job 33:27

Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me.’

1 Peter 2:13

Submit yourselves to every human authority for the Lord’s sake, whether it be to the king, as supreme,

Hosea 14:9

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just will walk in them; but the transgressors stumble in them.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father, and does not bless its mother.

Genesis 28:7

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

Psalm 19:8

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

Esther 2:20

Esther had not yet disclosed her lineage or her people, since Mordecai had so commanded her. Esther followed the command of Mordecai just as she had when under his protection.

1 Corinthians 15:58

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

Romans 16:2

that you welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself as well.

Psalm 119:75

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

Genesis 37:13

Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He answered, “Here I am.”

Jeremiah 35:14

The words of Jonadab the son of Rekab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed, for to this day they drink none, but they obey their father’s commandment. However, I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you did not obey Me.

Nehemiah 9:13

“You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them just requirements, true laws, good statutes and commandments.

1 Samuel 17:20

So David rose up early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper. And he carried away the provisions and went as Jesse had commanded him. And when he came to the encampment, the army was going out to the battle line, and they shouted a war cry.

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I esteem all Your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.

Ruth 3:5

She said to her, “All that you say to me I will do.”

Jeremiah 35:8

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

Jeremiah 35:18

Jeremiah said to the house of the Rekabites: Thus says 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,

Genesis 48:12

So Joseph took them from beside his knees, and he bowed down with his face to the ground.

Genesis 50:12

So his sons did with him just as he had commanded them.