Children being obedient

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• Colossians 3:20

  Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

• Ephesians 6:1–4

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. …

• Ephesians 6:1

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

• Matthew 15:4

  For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

• Ephesians 6:4

  And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

• Deuteronomy 27:16

  Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

• Mark 7:10

  For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

• Exodus 21:17

  And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

• Hebrews 13:4

  Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

• Proverbs 22:6

  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

• Proverbs 30:17

  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.

• Romans 5:19

  For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

• John 14:15

  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

• 1 Peter 1:14

  As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

• 1 John 2:5

  But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

• James 4:7

  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

• Luke 11:28

  But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

• John 14:23

  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

• 1 John 2:1–29

  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. …

• Philippians 2:3

  Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

• 1 Corinthians 14:34

  Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

• 2 John 1:6

  And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

• 1 John 2:15

  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

• Hebrews 13:17

  Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

• Luke 2:51

  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.

• Colossians 3:21

  Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

• Exodus 20:12

  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

• Proverbs 1:8

  My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: