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 unreasoning and implicit; submission is the willing subjection of an inferior in point of order to one having a right to command.
In the Lord - join with "obey." 'Aleph (') A, Vulgate, support; B Delta G f g omit. Both parents and children being Christians, "in the Lord" expresses the element in which the obedience has place, and the motive to it. In Colossians 3:20 it is, "Children, obey your parents in all things." "In the Lord" suggests the limitation of the obedience required (Acts 5:29: cf., on the other hand, the abuse, Mark 7:11-13). Right - not merely becoming. Even natural law requires obedience to them from whom we derive life.