Colossians 3:20

New King James Version

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father, And does not bless its mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks his father, And scorns obedience to his mother, The ravens of the valley will pick it out, And the young eagles will eat it.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s command, And do not forsake the law of your mother.

Jeremiah 35:8

Thus we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

Leviticus 19:3

‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, And a servant his master. If then I am the Father, Where is My honor? And if I am a Master, Where is My reverence? Says the Lord of hosts To you priests who despise My name. Yet you say, ‘In what way have we despised Your name?’

Matthew 19:19

‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

Ephesians 5:24

Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 5:16

‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Philippians 4:18

Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 3:22

Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.

Titus 2:9

Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back,

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Ruth 3:5

And she said to her, “All that you say to me I will do.”