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.

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• Exod 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Eph 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
• Prov 6:20My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Matt 15:4–6For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
• Matt 19:19Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Deut 27:16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Lev 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Prov 30:17The 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.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
• Col 1:10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Mal 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?
• Heb 13:21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Eph 5:24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
• Prov 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
• Titus 2:9Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
• Gen 28:7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
• Deut 21:18–21If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
• Phil 4:18But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
• Ezek 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 vexed the fatherless and the widow.
• Col 3:22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

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