Colossians 3:20

Colossians chapter 3 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

Context

v.19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

v.20This passage

v.21Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 28:7

    and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:

  • Proverbs 6:20

    My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Malachi 1:6

    A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

  • Matthew 19:19

    Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

  • Deuteronomy 21:18

    If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

  • Exodus 20:12

    Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.