Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 be not bitter towards them.
21Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.
Cross References
Genesis 28:7And that Jacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria:
Leviticus 19:3Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.
Proverbs 6:20My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Ezekiel 22:7They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.
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 →