Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
In Context
2Honour thy father and mother (which is the first commandement with promise)
Cross References
Genesis 37:13And Israel said vnto Ioseph, Doe not thy brethren keepe in Shechem? come and I will send thee to them.
Genesis 50:12So his sonnes did vnto him, according as he had commanded them:
Deuteronomy 21:18If any man haue a sonne that is stubburne and disobedient, which wil not hearken vnto the voice of his father, nor the voyce of his mother, and they haue chastened him, and he would not obey them,
1 Samuel 17:20So Dauid rose vp earely in the morning, and left the sheepe with a keeper, and tooke and went as Ishai had commanded him, and came within the compasse of the hoste: and the hoste went out in araie, and shouted in the battell.
Esther 2:20Ester had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people, as Mordecai had charged her: for Ester did after the worde of Mordecai, as when she was nourished with him.
Psalms 19:8The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart: the commandement of the Lord is pure, and giueth light vnto the eyes.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 6:1
In this chapter, I. The apostle proceeds in the exhortation to relative duties which he began in the former, particularly he insists on the duties of children and parents, and of servants and masters, ver. 1-9 . II. He exhorts and directs Christians how to behave themselves in the spiritual warfare with the enemies of their souls; and to the exercise of several Christian graces, which he proposes to them as so many pieces of spiritual armour, to preserve and defend them in the conflict, ver. 10-18 . III. We have… Read the whole commentary →