Colossians 3:20
New International Version
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

New Living Translation
Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord.

English Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Berean Standard Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

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

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

New King James Version
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

New American Standard Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

NASB 1995
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

NASB 1977
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.

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].

Christian Standard Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Children, obey your parents in all things, for thus it is pleasing before Our Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Children must always obey their parents. This pleases the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Children, always obey your parents. 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.

International Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Literal Standard Version
the children: obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the LORD;

Majority Standard Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

New American Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

NET Bible
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is your acceptable duty in the Lord.

New Heart English Bible
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

Weymouth New Testament
Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

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

Young's Literal Translation
the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

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Context
Christian Households
19Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord. 21Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Ruth 3:5
"I will do everything you say," Ruth answered.

Jeremiah 35:8
And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives--neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.

Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.


Treasury of Scripture

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

obey.

Genesis 28:7
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

in.

Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

Ephesians 5:24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Titus 2:9
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

well pleasing.

Colossians 1:10
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Philippians 4:18
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

Hebrews 13:21
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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Colossians 3
1. He shows where we should seek Christ.
5. He exhorts to holiness;
10. to put off the old self, and put on Christ;
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Verse 20. - To children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord (Ephesians 6:1, 2; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; Leviticus 19:3; Proverbs 23:22; Luke 2:51, 52). In Ephesians 6:1, 2 "in all things" (κατὰ πάντα, "in regard to all things") is wanting; and not the extent, but the intrinsic rightness of the command as it is found in the Decalogue is insisted on. But here, where "Christ is all and in all" (ver. 11), it is "in the Lord" (Revised Text) that the child's obedience is declared to be "well pleasing." There is something especially pleasing in the behaviour of a lovingly obedient child, that wins "favour" both "with God and man" (Luke 2:52). The law of filial obedience has its creative ground "in him" (Colossians 1:16), and is an essential part of the Christian order of life, which is the natural order restored and perfected. "Well pleasing" is a favourite word of St. Paul's (comp. Colossians 1:10; Ephesians 5:10; Philippians 4:8; Romans 14:18; Titus 2:9, etc.; used also in Hebrews).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Children,
τέκνα (tekna)
Noun - Vocative Neuter Plural
Strong's 5043: A child, descendent, inhabitant. From the base of timoria; a child.

obey
ὑπακούετε (hypakouete)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 5219: From hupo and akouo; to hear under, i.e. To listen attentively; by implication, to heed or conform to a command or authority.

[your]
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

parents
γονεῦσιν (goneusin)
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1118: A begetter, father; plur: parents. From the base of ginomai; a parent.

in
κατὰ (kata)
Preposition
Strong's 2596: A primary particle; down, in varied relations (genitive, dative or accusative) with which it is joined).

everything,
πάντα (panta)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

for
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

this
τοῦτο (touto)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

is
ἐστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

pleasing
εὐάρεστόν (euareston)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2101: Acceptable, well-pleasing (especially to God), grateful. From eu and arestos; fully agreeable.

to
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

[the] Lord.
Κυρίῳ (Kyriō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.


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