Colossians 3:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto 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 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Eph 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
• Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour 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 obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
• Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Gen 28:7 : 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
• Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
• Col 1:10 : 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
• Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened 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 with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; 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 thy father's commandment, 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 obscure darkness.
• Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless 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 stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
• Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD 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 commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; 6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
• Matt 19:19 : 19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.