Ephesians 6:1-3 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ephesians 6:1-9

Here we have further directions concerning relative duties, in which the apostle is very particular. I. The duty of children to their parents. Come, you children, hearken to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord. The great duty of children is to obey their parents (Eph. 6:1), parents being the instruments of their being, God and nature having given them an authority to command, in subserviency to God; and, if children will be obedient to their pious parents, they will be in a fair way to... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Ephesians 6:1-4

6:1-4 Children, obey your parents as Christian children should. Honour your father and your mother for this is the first commandment to which a promise is attached that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth. Fathers. do not move your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and the admonition of the Lord. If the Christian faith did much for women, it did even more for children. In Roman civilization contemporary with Paul there existed certain... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Ephesians 6:1-4

Paul lays on children that they should obey the commandment and honour their parents. He says this is the first commandment. He probably means that it was the first commandment which the Christian child was taught to memorize. The honour Paul demands is not the honour of mere lip service. The way to honour parents is to obey them, to respect them, and never to cause them pain. Paul sees that there is another side to the question. He tells fathers that they must not provoke their children to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 6:1

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 true, legitimate, and immediate offspring of men may be chiefly respected, yet not exclusive of spurious children, and adopted ones, and of children-in-law; and the persons to whom obedience from them is due, are not only real and immediate parents, both father and mother, but such who are in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 6:2

Honour thy father and mother ,.... This explains who parents are, and points at some branches of obedience due unto them; for they are not only to be loved, and to be feared, and reverenced, their corrections to be submitted to, offences against them to be acknowledged, their tempers to be bore with, and their infirmities covered; but they are to be honoured in thought, word, and gesture; they are to be highly thought of and esteemed; they are to be spoken to, and of, very honourably, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 6:3

That it may be well with thee ,.... In this world, and that which is to come; see Deuteronomy 5:16 . The Jews F26 Misna Peah, c. 1. sect. 1. T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 127. 1, & Kiddushin, fol. 40. 1. say, "there are four things, which if a man does, he eats the fruit of them in this world, and the capital part remains for him in the world to come; and they are these, אב ואם כיבוד ; "honouring father and mother", doing acts of beneficence, making peace between a man and his... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:1

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 sense of the highest obligations, would most strongly enforce the command. In the Lord - This clause is wanting in several reputable MSS., and in same versions. In the Lord may mean, on account of the commandment of the Lord; or, as far as the parents commands are according to the will and word of God. For surely no child is called to obey any parent... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:2

Honor thy father - See the notes on Exodus 20:12 , etc., where this subject, together with the promises and threatenings connected with it, is particularly considered, and the reasons of the duty laid down at large. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:1

Verse 1 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 which children owe to their parents, and is therefore more earnestly enforced. It is likewise more difficult; for the human mind recoils from the idea of subjection, and with difficulty allows itself to be placed under the control of another. Experience shews how rare this virtue is; for do we find one among a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:2

Verse 2 2.Which is the first commandment with promise. The promises annexed to the commandments are intended to excite our hopes, and to impart a greater cheerfulness to our obedience; and therefore Paul uses this as a kind of seasoning to render the submission, which he enjoins on children, more pleasant and agreeable. He does not merely say, that God has offered a reward to him who obeys his father and mother, but that such an offer is peculiar to this commandment. If each of the commandments... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ephesians 6:1-9

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Ephesians 6:1-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Ephesians 6:1-4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 6:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 6:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ephesians 6:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 6:2

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