Ephesians 6:1

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 28:7

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

Genesis 37:13

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

Genesis 48:12

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

Genesis 50:12

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

Nehemiah 9:13

“You came down also on Mount Sinai, And spoke with them from heaven, And gave them just ordinances and true laws, Good statutes and commandments.

Esther 2:20

Now Esther had not revealed her family and her people, just as Mordecai had charged her, for Esther obeyed the command of Mordecai as when she was brought up by him.

Job 33:27

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

Psalm 119:128

Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things I consider to be right; I hate every false way.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right, And that in faithfulness You 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 do not forsake the law of your mother;

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 30:11

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

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks his father, And scorns obedience to his mother, The ravens of the valley will pick it out, And the young eagles will eat it.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s command, 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 performed; for to this day they drink none, and obey their father’s commandment. But although I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, you did not obey Me.

Jeremiah 35:18

And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “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 commanded you,

Jeremiah 35:8

Thus 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, or our daughters,

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.

Leviticus 19:3

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

Luke 2:51

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but His mother kept all these things in her heart.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be 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 may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

Romans 7:12

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

1 Corinthians 15:58

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

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 chastened him, will not heed them,

1 Timothy 5:4

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

1 Peter 2:13

Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether 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

So David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for the battle.