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“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother” (Ephesians 6:1-2).
It is not always easy to obey our parents, for sometimes we may think that they are being unreasonable. Sometimes the world has changed since they were young, and we may feel that they do not understand the things we have to deal with. But here the Word of God tells us, as children, to obey our parents, “for this is right.” Usually our parents know more than we do, and understand us too. But even if sometimes we may disagree with them, we are to obey them “in the Lord.” This means that we are always to obey our parents unless they tell us to do something that would dishonor the Lord. For example, I have known of ungodly parents telling a child to steal something. Then it would be right to say, I cannot do that. But in everything else, we honor the Lord by obeying our parents.
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