Orderly Relationships: Parents



Ephesians 6:1-4 TLV Orderly Relationships: Parents

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. [a]2 “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “so that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” [b] 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.[c]

Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:2 Cf. Prov. 1:8; 6:20; 23:22.
  2. Ephesians 6:4 Deut. 5:16; cf. Exod. 20:12.
  3. Ephesians 6:4 Cf. Deut. 6:7; 11:19; Ps. 78:4; Prov. 22:6.


Exodus 20:12 TLV

12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Adonai your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 5:16 TLV

16 ‘Honor your father and your mother just as Adonai your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and it may go well with you in the land Adonai your God is giving you.