Colossians 3:20

Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter against them. ²⁰ Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. ²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they won't 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 long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Titus 2:9

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

Leviticus 19:3

"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

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

Deuteronomy 27:16

'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Proverbs 6:20

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

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Malachi 1:6

"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says the LORD of hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

Matthew 15:4-6

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

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

But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

Colossians 1:10

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 3:22

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.