Ephesians 6:1
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Children and Parents
6 (A)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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Colossians 3:20-25
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20 Children, obey your parents (A)in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. 22 Bondservants, obey (B)in everything those who are your earthly masters,[a] not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 (C)Whatever you do, work heartily, (D)as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord (E)you will receive the inheritance as your reward. (F)You are serving the Lord Christ. 25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
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- Colossians 3:22 Or your masters according to the flesh
Proverbs 23:22
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Proverbs 6:20
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Warnings Against Adultery
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Proverbs 1:8
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The Enticement of Sinners
8 (A)Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
and forsake not your mother's teaching,
Colossians 3:16-17
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16 Let (A)the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, (B)singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, (C)with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And (D)whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, (E)giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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Deuteronomy 21:18
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A Rebellious Son
18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,
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Leviticus 19:3
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3 (A)Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and (B)you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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Ephesians 6:5-6
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Bondservants and Masters
5 (A)Bondservants,[a] obey your earthly masters[b] with fear and trembling, (B)with a sincere heart, (C)as you would Christ, 6 not by the way of eye-service, as (D)people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
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- Ephesians 6:5 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; also verse 6; likewise for bondservant in verse 8
- Ephesians 6:5 Or your masters according to the flesh
Romans 12:2
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2 (A)Do not be conformed to this world,[a] but be transformed by (B)the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may (C)discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.[b]
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- Romans 12:2 Greek age
- Romans 12:2 Or what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God
1 Timothy 5:4
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4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn (A)to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for (B)this is pleasing in the sight of God.
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Job 33:27
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27 He sings before men and says:
‘I (A)sinned and perverted what was right,
and it was not repaid to me.
1 Peter 2:13
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Submission to Authority
13 (A)Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution,[a] whether it be to the emperor[b] as supreme,
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- 1 Peter 2:13 Or every institution ordained for people
- 1 Peter 2:13 Or king; also verse 17
Romans 7:12
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12 So (A)the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
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Luke 2:51
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51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And (A)his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
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Proverbs 30:17
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17 The eye that (A)mocks a father
and (B)scorns to obey a mother
will (C)be picked out by (D)the ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.
Hosea 14:9
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9 (A)Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
and (B)the upright walk in them,
(C)but transgressors stumble in them.
Proverbs 30:11
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- Proverbs 30:11 Hebrew There is a generation; also verses 12, 13, 14
Genesis 28:7
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7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
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Psalm 19:8
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8 (A)the precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is (B)pure,
(C)enlightening the eyes;
Esther 2:20
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20 (A)Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just (B)as when she was brought up by him.
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1 Corinthians 15:58
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58 (A)Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in (B)the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord (C)your labor is not in vain.
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Romans 16:2
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2 that you (A)may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.
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Psalm 119:75
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75 I know, O Lord, that your rules are (A)righteous,
and that in (B)faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Genesis 37:13
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13 And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”
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