Bible Verses About Children Being Obedient
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for children being obedient, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 720 votes, led by Colossians 3:20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Children Being Obedient
Colossians 3:2098 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1-483 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 6:167 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Matthew 15:462 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Ephesians 6:439 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 27:1634 votes
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Mark 7:1032 votes
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Exodus 21:1731 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Hebrews 13:419 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Proverbs 22:617 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 30:1717 votes
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.
John 14:1517 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Romans 5:1916 votes
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
1 John 2:514 votes
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1 Peter 1:1413 votes
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Luke 11:2812 votes
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
John 14:2312 votes
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 Corinthians 14:3412 votes
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.
James 4:712 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Luke 2:5111 votes
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.
Hebrews 13:1711 votes
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.
1 John 2:1511 votes
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.
Exodus 20:1210 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
1 Samuel 15:2210 votes
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.
Proverbs 1:810 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
What does the Bible say about children being obedient?
Readers most often cite Colossians 3:20 on the subject of children being obedient. Across 720 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 6:1-4, Ephesians 6:1, Matthew 15:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.