Colossians 3:20

Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships

¹⁹ the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them; ²⁰ the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord; ²¹ the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

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, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Ephesians 5:24

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

Titus 2:9

Servants -- to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

Genesis 28:7

that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram --

Leviticus 19:3

Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I am Jehovah your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed is He who is making light of his father and his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

Proverbs 6:20

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

Proverbs 30:17

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

Malachi 1:6

A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I am a father, where is Mine honour? And if I am a master, where is My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: 'In what have we despised Thy name?'

Matthew 15:4-6

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

Matthew 19:19

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

Ephesians 6:1-3

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

Philippians 4:18

and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you -- an odour of a sweet smell -- a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:

Colossians 1:10

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

Colossians 3:22

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.