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, that they not be 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 prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

Ephesians 5:24

The congregation is subject to Christ. Likewise let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

Titus 2:9

Servants should to be in subjection to their masters (overseers) (employers). They should please them in all things and not talk back.

Genesis 28:7

Jacob did as his father and mother said. He went to Paddan-aram.

Leviticus 19:3

Respect your mother and father. Observe my days of worship. I am Jehovah your God!

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen or obey his father or his mother when they chastise him,

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or mother. All the people will say: Amen.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, obey your father's command, and do not abandon the law of your mother:

Proverbs 20:20

He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in obscure darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

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

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks his father, and rejects obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

Ezekiel 22:7

People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.'

Malachi 1:6

Jehovah of Hosts declares to the priests: Children honor their parents and servants honor their masters. I am your father. Why do you not honor me? I am your master. Why do you not respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask: How have we despised you?

Matthew 15:4-6

God said, 'Honor your father and mother.' 'He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.'

Matthew 19:19

Honor your father and your mother, and 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 all things, and prosper: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you. It is an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full discernment, recognition) of God.

Colossians 3:22

Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, respecting God.

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfect (mature) in every good thing. May you do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.