Verse 20

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Eph 5:24 : 24 And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), 3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.
  • Titus 2:9 : 9 Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
  • Gen 28:7 : 7 And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment: 19 Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place; 20 And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink. 21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. 5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; 6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.