Colossians 3:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
  • Eph 5:24 : 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), 3 that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
  • Titus 2:9 : 9 [ Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • Gen 28:7 : 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord: [
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God] ; 6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

    2Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

    3that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

    4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

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    23whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

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    19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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    16Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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    4For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

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    6Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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    8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

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    19Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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    6Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

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    20My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

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    3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

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    20giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

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    1My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:

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  • Deut 21:18
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    18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

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    10proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

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    25Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

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    11My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof:

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    22and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

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    17Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to them] : for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [were] unprofitable for you.

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    32Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.

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    8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

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    22Wives, [be in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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    16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.