“ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. ”
Children - τέκνα tekna This word usually signifies those who are young; but it is used here, evidently, to denote those who were under the care and government of their parents, or those who...
Children, (1) obey your parents (2) in the (a) Lord: (3) for this is right. (1) He comes to another part of a family, and shows that the duty of the children toward their parents consists in obedien...
Children must obey their parents as a matter of Christian dutyHonour thy father and thy mother, etc., is both a dictate of righteousness and an injunction of primary importance; and moreover it carri...
Children . App-108. Compare Colossians 3:20 . Lord . App-98. right . App-191.
1. Children, obey. Why does the apostle use the word obey instead of honor, (167) which has a greater extent of meaning? It is because Obedience is the evidence of that honor wh...
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Children, obey your parents - This is a duty with which God will never dispense; he commands it, and one might think that gratitude, from a...
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Obey, х hupakouete ( G5219 )] - stronger than as to wives "submitting," or 'being subject' ( Ephesians 5:21 ). Obedience is unr...
As before, those who have to obey and submit are taken first. Cp. in the Lord here with 'unto the Lord' ( Ephesians 5:22 ) and 'unto Christ' ( Ephesians 6:5 ). Right ] both nature and the express La...
In Ephesians 6:10-17 . St. Paul sums up his practical exhortation in that magnificent description which has ever since laid hold of Christian imagination, both in metaphor and in allegory. He paints...
Chapter 27 THE CHRISTIAN HOUSEHOLD Ephesians 6:1-9 THE Christian family is the cradle and the fortress of the Christian faith. Here its virtues shine most brightly; and by this channel its inf...
Children and Parents; Servants and Masters Ephesians 6:1-12 Where our religion is true, it will affect every relationship in life. The love of Christ must find its manifestation in nursery and...
The teaching now turned to the next relationship of importance in the Christian household-the relationship of parents and children. Children are to yield obedience, and thus be set free from all care...
CONTENTS In this Chapter the Epistle is closed: and a blessed Close is made: Paul bids the Church to entrench themselves, in the holy Armory of God. And he seals up all, with an Apostolic Benedictio...
Children, obey your parents in the Lord ,.... The persons whose duty this is, "children", are such of every sex, male and female, and of every age, and of every state and condition; and though the t...
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Ver. 1. Children, obey your parents ] As Isaac did Abraham in submitting to be sacrificed; as Christ became obedient even to the death...
The apostle, having explained the duties of wives and husbands, proceeds to the duties of children and parents, and then to those of servants, or slaves rather, and masters, with which he finishes hi...
PARENTS AND CHILDREN (vs.1-4) Children are next addressed. The instruction is simple and uncomplicated. They are to obey their parents in the Lord, that is, as subject to the Lord's authority. Fa...
Duties of Children to Parents; Duties of Servants to Masters. A. D. 61. 1 Children, obey your...
EPHESAIANS CHAPTER 6 Ephesians 6:1-3 The relative duties of children, Ephesians 6:4 and parents, Ephesians 6:5-8 of servants, Ephesians 6:9 and masters. Ephesians 6:10-17 Paul exh...
Instructions Concerning Children and Bondservants (6:1-9). ‘Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honour your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, t...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Ephesians 6:1 . Children, obey. —Until the days of discretion arrive this is the grace of childhood. If through obedience the child errs, the responsibility of tha...
Ephesians 6:1-4 Children and Parents. I. St. Paul assumes that the life of children may be a life in Christ. Children are to obey their parents in the Lord, and parents are to nurture their child...
Ephesians 6:1 . Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Fitting by nature, and pleasing in the sight of God. Ephesians 6:2-4 . Honour thy father and mother; which is the f...
Ephesians 6:1 . Children, obey your parents, because they are your parents, who gave you birth, and nourished you with food and fond affection in all your tender years. Their age and experience qu...
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Parents and children I. Duties of children to parents. 1. Children owe to their parents an inward affection and regard. Their obed...
EXPOSITION Ephesians 6:1 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....
Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.
1 Corinthians 15:58 ; 1 Peter 2:13 ; 1 Samuel 17:20 ; 1 Timothy 5:4 ; Colossians 3:16 ; Colossians 3:17 ; Colossians 3:20 ; Colossians 3:23 ; Colossians 3:24 ; Deuteronomy 21:18 ; Ephesian...
The Christian Home Ephesians 6:1-4 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It was the Apostle Paul who, in the Spirit, said, "Grace * * hath appeared teaching us that * * we should live soberly, righteously and go...
Children, obey your parents — In all things lawful. The will of the parent is a law to the child. In the Lord — For his sake. For this is right — Manifestly just and reasonable.