Colossians 3:20

Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter unto them. ²⁰ Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

All Things

In Christ

Obey Your Parents

Sing to the Lord

To the Lord

Pleasing To The Lord

Exodus 20:12

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Ephesians 5:24

Therefore as the congregation is in subjection to Christ, likewise let the wives be in subjection to their husbands in all things.

Titus 2:9

The servants exhort to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please in all things, not answering again,

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone unto Mesopotamia:

Leviticus 19:3

See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

If any man have a son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them:

Deuteronomy 27:16

"'Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep thy father's commandments, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father and mother, his light shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

He that bringeth up an evil report upon the generation of his father and mother, is not worthy to be commended.

Proverbs 30:17

Whoso laugheth his father to scorn, and setteth his mother's commandment at naught; the ravens pick out his eyes in the valley, and devoured be he of the young Eagles.

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.

Malachi 1:6

"Should not a son honour his father, and a servant his master? If I be now a father, where is mine honour? If I be the LORD, where am I feared? sayeth the LORD of Hosts, now, to you priests that despise my name. And if ye say, 'Wherein have we despised thy name?'

Matthew 15:4-6

For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'

Matthew 19:19

Honour father and mother: and thou shalt love thine neighbor as thyself."

Ephesians 6:1-3

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

Philippians 4:18

I received all, and have plenty. I was even filled after that I have received of Epaphroditus, that which came from you, an odor that smelleth sweet, a sacrifice accepted and pleasant to God.

Colossians 1:10

that ye might walk worthy of the Lord in all things that please, being fruitful in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God

Colossians 3:22

Servants, be obedient unto your bodily masters in all things: not with eye service as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart fearing God.

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfect in all good works, to do his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ: To whom be praise for ever while the world endureth. Amen.