Colossians 3:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is your acceptable duty in the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

Exodus 20:12

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

Proverbs 20:20

If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Proverbs 6:20

My child, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Jeremiah 35:8

We have obeyed the charge of our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.

Leviticus 19:3

You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall 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 a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”

Matthew 19:19

Honor your father and mother. Also, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Ephesians 5:24

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors father or mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 5:16

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

Philippians 4:18

I have been paid in full and have more than enough; I am fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not with a slavery performed merely for looks, to please people, but wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

Titus 2:9

Urge slaves to be submissive to their masters in everything, to be pleasing, not talking back,

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, as he works among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.

Ruth 3:5

She said to her, “All that you say I will do.”