Colossians 3:20

Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. ²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.

All Things

In Christ

Obey Your Parents

Sing to the Lord

To the Lord

Pleasing To The Lord

Exodus 20:12

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.

Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is subject to Christ, thus also wives [should be subject] to their husbands in everything.

Titus 2:9

Slaves must be subject to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not to talk back,

Genesis 28:7

and [that] Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan-Aram.

Leviticus 19:3

Each [of you] must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I [am] Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

"{If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son} [who] {does not listen to} the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey them,

Deuteronomy 27:16

'Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Proverbs 6:20

My child, keep [the] commandment of your father, and do not disregard [the] instruction of your mother.

Proverbs 20:20

He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished {in the midst of darkness}.

Proverbs 30:11

[There is] a generation [that] will curse its father, and its mother it will not bless.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.

Malachi 1:6

"A son honors [his] father, and a slave his master; but if I [am] a father, where [is] my honor, and if I [am] a master, where [is] my reverence?" says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, {who despise} my name. "But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'

Matthew 15:4-6

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'

Matthew 19:19

honor your father and your mother, and love your neighbor as yourself."

Ephesians 6:1-3

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Philippians 4:18

But I have received everything [in full] and have an abundance; {I am well supplied} [because] I received from Epaphroditus {what you had sent}, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, obey your {human} masters in everything, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with every good [thing] to do his will, carrying out in us [what is] pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] the glory {forever}. Amen.