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 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 in subjection 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, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged. 22Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

Colossians 3:20 word by word

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

• Childrenτέκνονteknon · childG5043
• obeyὑπακούωhupakouō · to obeyG5219
• yourκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962
• parentsγονεύςgoneus · parentG1118
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• allπᾶςpas · allG3956
• thingsοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• forγάρgar · forG1063
• isεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• well-pleasingεὐάρεστοςeuarestos · well-pleasingG2101
• Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962

Cross-references for Colossians 3:20

• Genesis 28:7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:
• Exodus 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Leviticus 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Deuteronomy 21:18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them:
• Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Proverbs 6:20My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law 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 set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee, have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they wronged 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 the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
• Matthew 15:4For God said, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil 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 right.
• Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:
• Ephesians 5:24But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.
• Colossians 1:10to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit 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