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Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Thompson Chain Reference - Filial Obedience;   Home;   Obedience;   Parents;   Young People;   The Topic Concordance - Children;   Obedience;   Pleasure;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children, Good;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Family;   Obedience;   Parents;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Teach, Teacher;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Colossians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acceptance;   Angels;   Character;   Christian Life;   Commandment;   Family;   Liberty;   Obedience;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 18 Accepted Acceptable;  

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Kids, do what your mommas and daddies tell you to. This is what makes God happy.
Bible in Basic English
Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Darby Translation
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord.
Christian Standard Bible®
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Weymouth's New Testament
Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.
King James Version (1611)
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing vnto the Lord.
Literal Translation
Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye children, obeye youre elders in all thinges, for that is well pleasynge vnto the LORDE.
Mace New Testament (1729)
children, obey your parents upon all occasions, for that is graceful in a christian.
THE MESSAGE
Children, do what your parents tell you. This delights the Master no end.
Amplified Bible
Children, obey your parents [as God's representatives] in all things, for this [attitude of respect and obedience] is well-pleasing to the Lord [and will bring you God's promised blessings].
American Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Children obey youre fathers and mothers in all thinges for that is wel pleasynge vnto the lorde.
Update Bible Version
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Webster's Bible Translation
Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
New Century Version
Children, obey your parents in all things, because this pleases the Lord.
New English Translation
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
Berean Standard Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Contemporary English Version
Children must always obey their parents. This pleases the Lord.
Complete Jewish Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything; for this pleases the Lord.
English Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Children, obey your parents in all thing for that is well pleasing vnto the Lord.
George Lamsa Translation
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto our LORD.
Hebrew Names Version
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
International Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.Ephesians 5:24; 6:1; Titus 2:9;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Children, obey your parents in every thing, for so it is pleasing before our Lord.
Murdock Translation
Children, obey your parents in every thing; for this is pleasing before our Lord.
New King James Version
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
New Living Translation
Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord.
New Life Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything. The Lord is pleased when you do.
English Revised Version
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is your acceptable duty in the Lord.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
King James Version
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Lexham English Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Chyldren, obey your fathers and mothers in all thynges, for that is well pleasyng vnto the Lorde.
Easy-to-Read Version
Children, obey your parents in everything. This pleases the Lord.
New American Standard Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
Good News Translation
Children, it is your Christian duty to obey your parents always, for that is what pleases God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sones, obeie ye to youre fadir and modir bi alle thingis; for this is wel plesinge in the Lord.

Contextual Overview

18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged. 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 God. 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord, Christ. 25 For he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

obey: Genesis 28:7, Exodus 20:12, Leviticus 19:3, Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Deuteronomy 27:16, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 20:20, Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:17, Ezekiel 22:7, Malachi 1:6, Matthew 15:4-6, Matthew 19:19, Ephesians 6:1-3

in: Colossians 3:22, Ephesians 5:24, Titus 2:9

well pleasing: Colossians 1:10, Philippians 4:18, Hebrews 13:21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 5:16 - Honour Proverbs 16:7 - please Jeremiah 35:8 - General Luke 18:20 - Do not commit Romans 8:8 - please

Cross-References

Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Genesis 2:23
The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Genesis 5:29
and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
Genesis 16:11
The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
Genesis 35:18
It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Exodus 2:10
The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
1 Samuel 1:20
It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of Yahweh.
Matthew 1:21
She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name JESUS, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."
Matthew 1:23
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
Acts 17:26
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Children, obey your parents,.... Both father and mother;

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in all things; not in things sinful, which are contrary to the law of God, and Gospel of Christ; in things repugnant to the duties of religion, the ordinances of the Gospel, and the doctrines of Christ, parents are to be neglected and disobeyed. God is to be regarded, and not men; but in all things good and lawful, and in all things that are of an indifferent nature, which may, or may not be done, in these things the will of earthly parents is to be attended to; of which there is a considerable instance in the Rechabites, see

Jeremiah 35:6 and even they are to be obeyed in things that are hard and difficult to be complied with, and which are disagreeable to flesh and blood, as the cases of Isaac and Jephthah's daughter show.

For this is well pleasing unto the Lord; and is a reason sufficient to engage to the performance of the duty; for whatever is grateful and well pleasing to God ought to be done with pleasure by us, from a principle of love to him, by faith in him, and with a view to his glory; and then such an action is acceptable in his sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Alexandrian copy reads, "in the Lord"; and so the Vulgate Latin version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Children, obey your parents ... - Notes, Ephesians 6:1-4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. Children, obey - in all things — That is, in the Lord-in every thing that your parents command you, which is not contrary to the will or word of God.


 
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