Ephesians 6:1
New Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
שָׁמַע
shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
יְמָנִי
yᵉmânîy
right (i.e. at the right hand)
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁמַע shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Study H8085 →בֵּן bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
Study H1121 →Cross References
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have spok...
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shout...
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