Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in every thing, for so it is pleasing before our Lord.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
In Context
19Men, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
21Fathers, exasperate not your children, that they be not discouraged.
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 →