Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in Lord.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
American Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Amplified
Children, obey your parents [as God’s representatives] in all things, for this [attitude of respect and obedience] is well-pleasing
An Understandable Version
You children should obey your parents in everything, for this is very pleasing to the Lord.
Anderson New Testament
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is wellpleasing to the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Common New Testament
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Daniel Mace New Testament
children, obey your parents upon all occasions, for that is graceful in a christian.
Darby Translation
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Godbey New Testament
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Goodspeed New Testament
Children, always obey your parents, for that is commendable in Christians.
John Wesley New Testament
Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Julia Smith Translation
Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.
King James 2000
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
Modern King James verseion
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Moffatt New Testament
Children, obey your parents at every point, for this pleases the Lord right well.
Montgomery New Testament
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.
NET Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
New Heart English Bible
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Noyes New Testament
Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is wellpleasing in the Lord.
Sawyer New Testament
Children, obey [your] parents in all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Children, always obey your parents; for that is pleasant to see in those who belong to the Lord.
Webster
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Weymouth New Testament
Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.
Williams New Testament
Children, practice obedience to your parents in everything, for this is acceptable in Christians.
World English Bible
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Worrell New Testament
Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord.
Worsley New Testament
Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord:
Youngs Literal Translation
the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
Themes
Children » Dishonouring parents » Filial obedience encouraged
Children » What children should do
Children » Good » Their obedience to parents is well pleasing to God
Good Children » Their obedience to parents is well pleasing to God
Obedience » Filial » Filial obedience encouraged
Parents » Examples of fathers' love » Obedience to
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 3:20
Prayers for Colossians 3:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships
19 Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them. 20 Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
Ephesians 5:24
But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.
Titus 2:9
Bondmen are to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not speaking contrary,
Genesis 28:7
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram.
Leviticus 19:3
Every man shall fear his mother, and his father. And ye shall keep my Sabbaths. I am LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken to them,
Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.
Proverbs 20:20
He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation who curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy na
Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.
Matthew 19:19
Honor the father and mother, and, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right.
Philippians 4:18
But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God.
Colossians 1:10
For you to walk worthily of the Lord for every desire to please, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 3:22
Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.
Hebrews 13:21
may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.