Colossians 3:20

Children are to obey their parents in everything, because such obedience pleases the Lord. It matters because honoring parents is part of living faithfully under God's order.

Cross-references · 20

• Exod 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Eph 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
• Prov 6:20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
• Matt 15:4–6For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
• Matt 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
• Deut 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Lev 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
• Prov 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
• Col 1:10so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
• Mal 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
• Heb 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Eph 5:24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
• Prov 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
• Titus 2:9Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,
• Gen 28:7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
• Deut 21:18–21If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
• Phil 4:18I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
• Ezek 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
• Col 3:22Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.

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