Ephesians 6:1

Children And Parents

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² "Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),

Obey Your Parents

To the Lord

Proverbs 6:20

My child, keep [the] commandment of your father, and do not disregard [the] instruction of your mother.

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 1:8

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,

Genesis 28:7

and [that] Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan-Aram.

Genesis 37:13

And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them." And he said, "Here I [am]."

Leviticus 19:3

Each [of you] must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I [am] Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18

"{If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son} [who] {does not listen to} the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey them,

1 Samuel 17:20

David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and he took [the provisions] and went as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment while the troops [were] going to the battle line, and they raised the war cry.

Nehemiah 9:13

Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments.

Esther 2:20

Esther had not made known her family and her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther {did what Mordecai told her}, just as when she was brought up by him.

Job 33:27

"He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted [what is] right, and it was not paid back to me.

Psalm 19:8

The precepts of Yahweh [are] right, making [the] heart rejoice. The command of Yahweh [is] pure, enlightening [the] eyes.

Psalm 119:75

I know, O Yahweh, that your judgments [are] right, and [that] in faithfulness you afflicted me.

Psalm 119:128

Therefore all [your] precepts of everything I regard as right; I hate every false way.

Proverbs 30:11

[There is] a generation [that] will curse its father, and its mother it will not bless.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.

Jeremiah 35:14

"The words of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, that he commanded his descendants to not drink, have been carried out, and they have not drunk until this day, for they have obeyed the command of their ancestor. But {I have spoken to you over and over again}, and you have not listened to me.

Hosea 14:9

Who [is] wise that he can understand these [things]? Who is discerning that he knows them? The ways of Yahweh [are] right, and [the] righteous walk in them; but transgressors stumble in them.

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was submitting to them. And his mother treasured all these things in her heart.

Romans 7:12

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

Romans 16:2

in order that you may welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever task she may have need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, even me myself.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.

Ephesians 6:5-6

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

Colossians 3:16-17

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with psalms, hymns, [and] spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God,

Colossians 3:20-25

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

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

1 Peter 2:13

Subject yourselves to every human authority for the sake of the Lord, whether to a king as having supreme authority,