Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the 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.
A Conservative Version
Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in 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.
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
Interlinear
Pas
Touto
References
American
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 3:20
Prayers for Colossians 3:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships
19 Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them. 20 Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord. 21 Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12
Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.
Ephesians 5:24
But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.
Titus 2:9
Servants to be subordinate to their own masters, to be pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
Genesis 28:7
And Jacob will hear to his father, and to his mother, and will go to Padan Aram.
Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If there shall be to a man a son stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they chastised him, and he will not hear to them:
Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed he making light of his father and his mother: and all the people said, Amen.
Proverbs 6:20
My son, watch the commands of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the laws of thy mother:
Proverbs 20:20
He cursing his father and his mother, his lamp shall go out in the midst of darkness.
Proverbs 30:11
A generation will curse its father, and will not bless its mother.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye shall mock to his father, and despise to obey the mother, the ravens of the valley shall bore it out and the sons of the eagle shall eat it
Ezekiel 22:7
They made light of father and mother in thee: they did with violence to the stranger in the midst of thee: they oppresed the orphan and the widow in thee.
Malachi 1:6
A son will honor the father, and the servant his lord; and if I a father, where mine honor? and if I their lord, where my fear? said Jehovah of armies to you, O priests despising my name. And ye said, In what did we despise thy name?
Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, he calumniating father or mother, in death let him die.
Matthew 19:19
Honour thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just.
Philippians 4:18
And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.
Colossians 1:10
For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Colossians 3:22
Servants, listen ye in all things to lords according to the flesh; not in eyeservice as pleasing men; but in simplicity of heart, fearing God:
Hebrews 13:21
Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.