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 20:12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives 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 don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
• Matt 15:4–6For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
• Matt 19:19‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
• Deut 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
• Lev 19:3“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
• Prov 30:17“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
• Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Mal 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
• Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Eph 5:24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
• Prov 20:20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
• Titus 2:9Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
• Gen 28:7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
• Deut 21:18–21If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
• Phil 4:18But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
• Ezek 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
• Col 3:22Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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