Colossians 3:20

World English Bible (2000)

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Eph 5:24 : 24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."
  • Titus 2:9 : 9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever 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, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Col 3:22 : 22 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.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 20 and they shall tell 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 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 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.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Mal 1:6 : 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 name?'
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' 5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"

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

    2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

    3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."

    4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

    5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

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    21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

    22 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.

    23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

  • Exod 20:12
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  • Col 3:17-19
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    17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

    18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

  • Col 3:6
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    6 for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

  • Titus 2:9
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    16 "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • 1 Tim 3:4
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  • Matt 15:4
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  • Prov 22:6
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    6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Matt 19:19
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    19 'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"

  • Prov 17:6
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    6 Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

  • Prov 6:20
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    20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

  • Eph 5:1
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    1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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  • Lev 19:3
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  • Eph 5:20
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    20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

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    1 My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

  • 1 Pet 3:6
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    6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

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

  • Ps 127:3
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    26 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

    12 for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

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    22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

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    1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

  • 1 John 3:22
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    22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

  • Heb 13:17
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    17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

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    7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

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    4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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    32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

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

  • Eph 5:22
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    22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

  • Eph 5:6
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  • Deut 27:16
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