Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- KJV
- Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
- WEB
- Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- ASV
- Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
- DARBY
- Children, obey your parents in [the] Lord, for this is just.
- BLB
- Children, obey your⁺ parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- ÅB
- Dere barn! vær lydige mot deres foreldre i Herren! for dette er rett.
- OTB
- Barn, adlyd deres foreldre som er passende i Herren, for dette er det rette å gjøre.
- B1930
- I barn! vær lydige mot eders foreldre i Herren! for dette er rett.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Colossians 3:20–25
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Read in contextProverbs 23:22
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Read in contextProverbs 6:20
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Read in contextColossians 3:16–17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Read in contextProverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 21:18
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Read in contextRomans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Read in contextLeviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
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