Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Holman Bible
Children, obey
International Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
A Conservative Version
Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right.
American Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Amplified
Children, obey your parents in the Lord [that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives], for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline].
An Understandable Version
Children, you should obey your parents in the Lord [i.e., as part of your Christian responsibility], for this is the right thing to do.
Anderson New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Bible in Basic English
Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.
Common New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Children, obey your christian parents: for this is the law.
Darby Translation
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
Godbey New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Goodspeed New Testament
Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right.
John Wesley New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Honour
Julia Smith Translation
Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just.
King James 2000
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Modern King James verseion
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.
Moffatt New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right;
Montgomery New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
NET Bible
Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.
New Heart English Bible
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Noyes New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
Sawyer New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye children, be obedient unto your parents in the Lord, for this is right:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Children, obey your parents, as children of the Lord; for that is but right.
Webster
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Weymouth New Testament
Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.
Williams New Testament
Children, obey your parents, for this is right.
World English Bible
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Worrell New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
Worsley New Testament
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Themes
Children » Dishonouring parents » Filial obedience encouraged
Children » What children should do
Children » Should » Obey parents
Christian conduct » Fulfilling domestic duties
Obedience » Filial » Filial obedience encouraged
Interlinear
Touto
Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 6:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Children And Parents
1 The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; 2 honour thy father and mother,
Cross References
Proverbs 6:20
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
Proverbs 23:22
Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
Genesis 28:7
that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram --
Genesis 37:13
and Israel saith unto Joseph, 'Are not thy brethren feeding in Shechem? come, and I send thee unto them;' and he saith to him, 'Here am I;'
Leviticus 19:3
Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18
When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --
1 Samuel 17:20
And David riseth early in the morning, and leaveth the flock to a keeper, and lifteth up, and goeth, as Jesse commanded him, and he cometh in to the path, and to the force which is going out unto the rank, and they have shouted for battle;
Nehemiah 9:13
'And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands.
Esther 2:20
Esther is not declaring her kindred and her people, as Mordecai hath laid a charge upon her, and the saying of Mordecai Esther is doing as when she was truly with him.
Job 33:27
He looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
Psalm 19:8
The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes,
Psalm 119:75
I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.
Psalm 119:128
Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!
Proverbs 30:11
A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.
Proverbs 30:17
An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.
Jeremiah 35:14
Performed have been the words of Jonadab son of Rechab, when he commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk unto this day, for they have obeyed the command of their father; and I -- I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking, and ye have not hearkened unto Me.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!
Luke 2:51
and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,
Romans 7:12
so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
Romans 12:2
and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
Romans 16:2
that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you -- for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.
1 Corinthians 15:58
so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
Ephesians 6:5-6
The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
Colossians 3:20-25
the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
1 Timothy 5:4
and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
1 Peter 2:13
Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,