Ephesians 6:1

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 28:7

and Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan-aram;

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 I am.

Genesis 48:12

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

Genesis 50:12

And his sons did to him according as he commanded them.

Nehemiah 9:13

And You came down 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 revealed her kindred nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her. For Esther obeyed the command of Mordecai as she did when she was brought up with him.

Job 33:27

He will observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me,

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I count all Your Commandments concerning all things to be right; I hate every false way.

Psalm 119:75

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

Psalm 19:8

The Precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the Commandments of Jehovah are pure, giving light to 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 who sired you, and do not despise 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 commandments, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

Jeremiah 35:14

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are done. For to this day they do not drink, but obey their father's commandment. But I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you did not listen to Me.

Jeremiah 35:18

And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts, and have done according to all that he has commanded you;

Jeremiah 35:8

So we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he has commanded 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? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.

Leviticus 19:3

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.

Luke 2:51

And He went with them and came to Nazareth, and He was subject to them. But His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

Romans 16:2

that you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you may assist her in whatever business she has need of you. For she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.

Romans 7:12

So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him he will not listen to them,

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

1 Peter 2:13

Then be in obedience to every ordinance of men, because of the Lord, whether to a king as supreme,

Ruth 3:5

And she said to her, All that you say, I will do.

1 Samuel 17:20

And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and got up and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the barricade, and to the army which was going out to fight, and shouted for the battle.