DO I HAVE TO OBEY MY PARENTS?

The Bible does command us to "Honour" our father and mother, and tells children to "obey" their "parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord" (Ephesians 6:1-2; Colossians 3:20). Therefore, it is God's will that children honor and obey their parents "in all things"--unless, of course, parents would have their children disobey God; for then "we ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29). To parents, and especially fathers, God has entrusted the responsibility to "bring up" their children "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4). It may not always seem pleasant to honor and obey our parents, but this is God's will for us; and, more often than we may think, our parents do know what is good for us.

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