Ephesians 6:1

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 28:7

Jacob listened to his father Isaac and to his mother and went toward Paddan-aram.

Genesis 37:13

Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers grazing the flocks in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them.” “Here I am,” he said to him.

Genesis 48:12

Then Joseph took them from his knees and bowed with his face down to the ground.

Genesis 50:12

So Jacob’s sons did for him just as he commanded them.

Nehemiah 9:13

“You descended on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just judgments, reliable laws, and good statutes and mitzvot.

Esther 2:20

Esther had not yet made known her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had told her. Esther continued to follow Mordecai’s instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.

Job 33:27

He sings to others, saying, ‘I have sinned and perverted what is right, but I did not get what I deserved.

Psalm 119:128

Therefore I esteem all Your precepts as right in every way —every false way I hate.

Psalm 119:75

I know, Adonai, Your judgments are just. In faithfulness You have afflicted me.

Psalm 19:8

The Torah of Adonai is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of Adonai is trustworthy, making the simple wise.

Proverbs 1:8

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

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 a father and scorns obeying a mother— will be pecked out by ravens of the valley and eaten by young vultures!

Proverbs 6:20

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

Jeremiah 35:14

“The words of Jonadab son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are observed, and to this day they drink none, for they listen to their father’s commandment. Yet I have spoken to you, early and often, and you have not obeyed Me.

Jeremiah 35:18

Now Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, 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

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

Hosea 14:9

Ephraim: “What more are idols to me? I have responded and observed Him. I will be like a luxuriant cypress tree. From me will be found Your fruit.”

Leviticus 19:3

“Each one of you is to respect his mother and his father, and keep My Shabbatot. I am Adonai your God.

Luke 2:51

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

Romans 12:2

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

Romans 16:2

so you may receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of kedoshim, and help her in whatever matter she may need from you. For she herself has become a patroness of many, including me as well.

Romans 7:12

So then, the Torah is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my dearly loved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord—because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Deuteronomy 21:18

“Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not listen to the voice of his father or mother. They discipline him, but he does not listen to them.

1 Timothy 5:4

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show devotion to their own home and give back to their parents, for this is pleasing before God.

1 Peter 2:13

For the Lord’s sake, submit yourselves to every human authority—whether to a king as supreme,

Ruth 3:5

Ruth answered her, “I will do everything you say.”

1 Samuel 17:20

So David rose up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, took the provisions and went as Jesse had commanded him. When he reached the camp, the army was going out to the battle line shouting the war cry.