Colossians 3:20

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 Living Translation (NLT)Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord.

Context of Colossians 3:20

18Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord. 21Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. 22Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.

Colossians 3:20 word by word

Τὰ τέκνα, ὑπακούετε τοῖς γονεῦσιν κατὰ πάντα· τοῦτο γὰρ εὐάρεστόν ἐστιν ἐν κυρίῳ.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Childrenὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Childrenτέκνονteknon · childG5043
• obeyὑπακούωhupakouō · to obeyG5219
• parentsγονεύςgoneus · parentG1118
• inκατάkata · according toG2596
• all thingsπᾶςpas · allG3956
• forγάρgar · forG1063
• thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• isεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• well pleasingεὐάρεστοςeuarestos · well-pleasingG2101
• unto the Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962

Cross-references for Colossians 3:20

• Genesis 28:7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.
• Exodus 20:12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
• Leviticus 19:3‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
• Deuteronomy 21:18“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them,
• Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
• Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s command, And do not forsake the law of your mother.
• Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.
• Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curses its father, And does not bless its mother.
• Ezekiel 22:7In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
• Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, And a servant his master. If then I am the Father, Where is My honor? And if I am a Master, Where is My reverence? Says the Lord of hosts To you priests who despise My name. Yet you say, ‘In what way have we despised Your name?’
• Matthew 15:4For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’
• Matthew 19:19‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
• Ephesians 6:1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
• Colossians 3:22Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.
• Ephesians 5:24Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
• Colossians 1:10that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the 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