Colossians 3:20

Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter against them. ²⁰ Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened.

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 lengthened upon the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.

Ephesians 5:24

Therefore, as the congregation is subject unto the Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

Titus 2:9

Exhort slaves to be subject to their own masters and to please them well in all things; not contradicting;

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had hearkened unto his father and his mother and had gone to Padanaram;

Leviticus 19:3

Ye shall fear, every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths. I AM your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

When anyone has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them,

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed is he that dishonours his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 20:20

Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises the teaching of his mother, the ravens shall pluck it out of the river, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee they have despised father and mother; in the midst of thee they have dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Malachi 1:6

The son honours his father and the slave his master; if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is my fear? said the LORD of the hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what have we despised thy name?

Matthew 15:4-6

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother, and, He that curses father or mother, let him die without recourse.

Matthew 19:19

Honour thy father and thy mother, and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Ephesians 6:1-3

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

Philippians 4:18

But I have all and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

that ye might walk worthy of the Lord, pleasing him in everything, being fruitful in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, in all things hearken unto your masters according to the flesh, not serving to be seen as those who only please men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.