Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
In Context
19Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.
21Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.
Cross References
Genesis 28:7and that Jacob, obeying his parents, had gone into Syria,
Leviticus 19:3Let each one fear his father and his mother. Observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he who does not honor his father and mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.
Proverbs 6:20My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation which curses their father, and which does not bless their mother.
Ezekiel 22:7They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:19-25
Relative Duties. ( a. d. 62.) 18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily,… Read the whole commentary →