Ephesians 6:1
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Children and Parents(A)
6 Children, (B)obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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Colossians 3:20-25
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20 (A)Children, obey your parents (B)in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
21 (C)Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
22 (D)Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. 23 (E)And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, 24 (F)knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; (G)for[a] you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and (H)there is no partiality.
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- Colossians 3:24 NU omits for
Proverbs 23:22
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22 (A)Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 6:20
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Beware of Adultery
20 (A)My son, keep your father’s command,
And do not forsake the law of your mother.
Proverbs 1:8
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Shun Evil Counsel
8 (A)My son, hear the instruction of your father,
And do not forsake the law of your mother;
Colossians 3:16-17
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16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another (A)in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And (B)whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
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Deuteronomy 21:18
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The 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 who, when they have chastened him, will not heed 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)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, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, (B)with fear and trembling, (C)in sincerity of heart, as to Christ; 6 (D)not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
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Romans 12:2
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2 And (A)do not be conformed to this world, but (B)be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may (C)prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
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1 Timothy 5:4
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4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and (A)to repay their parents; for this is [a]good and acceptable before God.
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- 1 Timothy 5:4 NU, M omit good and
Job 33:27
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27 Then he looks at men and (A)says,
‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right,
And it (B)did not profit me.’
1 Peter 2:13
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Submission to Government(A)
13 (B)Therefore submit yourselves to every [a]ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme,
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- 1 Peter 2:13 institution
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