Colossians 3:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τὰ τέκνα, ὑπακούετε τοῖς γονεῦσιν κατὰ πάντα: τοῦτο γὰρ ἐστιν εὐάρεστόν τῷ Κυρίῳ.

Transliteration

The tekna, hypakouete to the goneusin according to panta: this gar estin euareston to the Kyriō.

Grammar Details

• *tekna*: nominative, neuter, plural - children
• *hypakouete*: present active imperative, 2nd person plural - obey
• *goneusin*: dative, masculine, plural - parents
• *kata*: preposition with accusative - according to
• *panta*: accusative, neuter, plural - all things
• *touto*: nominative, neuter, singular, demonstrative pronoun - this
• *gar*: explanatory particle - for
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *euareston*: nominative, neuter, singular - well-pleasing
• *Kyriō*: dative, masculine, singular - to the Lord

Word Meanings

• *tekna*: children/offspring
• *hypakouete*: obey/be obedient to/hearken to
• *goneusin*: parents/fathers and mothers
• *panta*: all things/every way
• *euareston*: well-pleasing/acceptable/pleasing

Referenced Verses

• 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 [None Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing None [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 {G4043} {G5209} 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.