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Colossians 3:20
20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord.
Colossians 3:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
Context of Colossians 3:20
18Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord. 19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord. 21Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened. 22Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.
Read all of Colossians 3Colossians 3:20 word by word
Τὰ τέκνα, ὑπακούετε τοῖς γονεῦσιν κατὰ πάντα· τοῦτο γὰρ εὐάρεστόν ἐστιν ἐν κυρίῳ.¶Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Colossians 3:20
- Genesis 28:7and [that] Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram.
- Exodus 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
- Leviticus 19:3Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.
- Deuteronomy 21:18If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them;
- Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he that slighteth his father or his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen.
- Proverbs 6:20My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
- Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
- Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;
- Ezekiel 22:7In thee have they made light of 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.
- Malachi 1:6A 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 Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
- Matthew 15:4For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.
- Matthew 19:19Honour thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Ephesians 6:1Children, obey your parents in [the] Lord, for this is just.
- Colossians 3:22Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.
- Ephesians 5:24But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.
- Colossians 1:10[so as] to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;
Commentaries on Colossians 3:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Children, obey - in all things - That is, in the Lord - in every thing that your parents command you, which is not contrary to the will or word of God.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Children, obey your parents - Notes, Ephesians 6:1-4.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 The epistles most taken up in displaying the glory of the Divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular in pressing the duties of the Christian life. We must never separate the privileges and duties of the gospel. Submission is the duty of wives. But it is submission, not to a severe lord or stern tyrant, but to her own husband, who is engaged to affectionate duty. And husbands must love their wives with tender and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-25This series of teachings is called a household code. Paul instructs wives (3:18), husbands (3:19), children (3:20), fathers (3:21), slaves (3:22–25), and masters (4:1). Similar codes are found in Greco-Roman writings and other parts of the New Testament (see Ephesians 5:22–6:9; 1 Peter 2:18–3:7).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. (Ep 6:1.) unto the Lord--The oldest manuscripts read, "IN the Lord," that is, this is acceptable to God when it is done in the Lord, namely, from the principle of faith, and as disciples in union with the Lord.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Colossians 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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