World English Bible
Colossians 3:20
“Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.”
Colossians 3:20 in the King James Version
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.Read Colossians 3:20 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Colossians 3
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Cross references for Colossians 3:20
- Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.
- Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.
- Matthew 19:19
Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
- Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me ...
- Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.
- Leviticus 19:3
Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
- Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
- Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
- Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your ...
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