Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 1 Holy Bible
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
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Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.
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Children, obey your parents in [the] Lord, for this is just.
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. The first duty of children is obedience, and "in the Lord," i.e. in Christ, this duty is confirmed. The ἐν Κυρίῳ qualifies, not "parents," but "obey," and indicates that the element or life which even children lead in fellowship with Christ makes such obedience more easy and more graceful. The duty itself rests on the first principles of morality - "for this is right." It is an obligation that rests on the very nature of things, and cannot change with the spirit of the age; it is in no degree modified by what is called the spirit of independence in children.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersVI.(4 b.) In Ephesians 6:1-4. St. Paul passes from the detailed exposition of the true relation of husbands and wives, to deal with the relation of parents and children, far more cursorily and simply, but under the light of the same idea. It is to be thought of as existing "in the Lord," i.e., within the unity binding all to Christ, in virtue of which the parental authority and the right freedom of the child are both hallowed.(1) In the Lord.--The phrase itself, though familiar in St. Paul's writings generally, is specially frequent in the Epistles of the Captivity, where it occurs in various connections no less than twenty-one times. (See, for example, Ephesians 2:21; Ephesians 3:11; Ephesians 4:1; Ephesians 4:17; Ephesians 5:8; Ephesians 6:10; Ephesians 6:21.) It is, in fact, a brief indication of their great subject--unity with and in Christ. Here to "obey in the Lord" is to obey under the light and grace of that unity, as already belonging both to parents and children, and transfiguring all natural relations to a diviner glory. . . .
