Children and Parents

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first[a] commandment with a promise), “in order that it may be well with you, and you may live a long time[b] on the earth.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:2 Or “is a very important”
  2. Ephesians 6:3 Literally “be long-lived”
  3. Ephesians 6:3 A quotation from Exod 20:12 and/or Deut 5:16

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.(A) “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 6:3 Deut. 5:16