Colossians 3:20

Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. ²⁰ Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they 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, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Ephesians 5:24

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Titus 2:9

Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

Leviticus 19:3

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the 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 discipline him, will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 27:16

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

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 20:20

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

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 the LORD 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 commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

Matthew 19:19

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Ephesians 6:1-3

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

Philippians 4:18

I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.