Ephesians 6:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Children, obey your parents in the Lord, because this is right. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition CHILDREN, OBEY your parents in the Lord [as His representatives], for this is just and right. American Standard Version (1901) Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Common English Bible As for children, obey your parents in the Lord, because it is right. Catholic Public Domain Version Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. |
Israel said to Joseph, ‘Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I’m sending you to them.’ ‘I’m ready,’ Joseph replied.
Then Joseph took them from his father’s knees and bowed with his face to the ground.
You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them impartial ordinances, reliable instructions, and good statutes and commands.
Esther still did not reveal her family background or her ethnicity, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai’s orders, as she always had while he brought her up.
He will look at men and say, ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.
As for the eye that ridicules a father and despises obedience to a mother, may ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures eat it.
My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.
The words of Jonadab, son of Rechab, have been carried out. He commanded his descendants not to drink wine, and they have not drunk to this day because they have obeyed their ancestor’s command. But I have spoken to you time and time again, , and you have not obeyed me!
But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Because you have obeyed the command of your ancestor Jonadab and have kept all his commands and have done everything he commanded you,
We have obeyed Jonadab, son of our ancestor Rechab, in all he commanded us. So we haven’t drunk wine our whole life #– #we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters.
Let whoever is wise understand these things, and whoever is insightful recognise them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
‘Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep my Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.
Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart.
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
So you should welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints and assist her in whatever matter she may require your help. For indeed she has been a benefactor of many #– #and of me also.
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.
‘If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to practise godliness towards their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.
Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor as the supreme authority
So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with someone to keep it, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had charged him. He arrived at the perimeter of the camp as the army was marching out to its battle formation shouting their battle cry.