Colossians 3:20

Mutual Responsibilities In Christian Relationships

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.
²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
²¹ Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so they won’t become 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 so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Ephesians 5:24

Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

Titus 2:9

Slaves are to be submissive to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back

Genesis 28:7

And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to Paddan-aram.

Leviticus 19:3

“Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep My Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s command,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or mother—
his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father
and does not bless its mother.

Proverbs 30:17

As for the eye that ridicules a father
and despises obedience to a mother,
may ravens of the valley pluck it out
and young vultures eat it.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”

Matthew 15:4-6

For God said:

Honor your father and your mother; and,
The one who speaks evil of father or mother
must 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 as you would the Lord, because this is right.

Philippians 4:18

But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you provided—a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.