Colossians 3:20
18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
- KJV
- Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
- WEB
- Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
- ASV
- Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
- DARBY
- Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord.
- BLB
- Children, obey [your] parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
- ÅB
- Dere barn! vær lydige mot deres foreldre i alle ting! for dette er velbehagelig i Herren.
- OTB
- Barn, hør på deres foreldre i alt, for dette er til behag for Herren.
- B1930
- I barn! vær lydige mot eders foreldre i alle ting! for dette er velbehagelig i Herren.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Read in contextEphesians 6:1–3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Read in contextProverbs 6:20
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Read in contextMatthew 19:19
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Read in contextMatthew 15:4–6
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Read in contextLeviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Read in contextProverbs 30:17
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.
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