Colossians 3:20

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

Cross References (20)

  • Exodus 20:12 (59)

    Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Ephesians 6:1–3 (56)

    Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

  • Proverbs 6:20 (11)

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

  • Matthew 15:4–6 (10)

    For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:16 (9)

    ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

  • Matthew 19:19 (9)

    honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”

  • Leviticus 19:3 (8)

    Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

  • Proverbs 30:17 (8)

    As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young

  • Proverbs 30:11 (5)

    There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

  • Colossians 1:10 (4)

    so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, g

  • Malachi 1:6 (4)

    “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

  • Proverbs 20:20 (3)

    Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.

  • Hebrews 13:21 (3)

    equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus

  • Titus 2:9 (3)

    Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

  • Ephesians 5:24 (3)

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

  • Genesis 28:7 (2)

    and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

  • Deuteronomy 21:18–21 (2)

    If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disc

  • Philippians 4:18 (1)

    I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acce

  • Ezekiel 22:7 (1)

    Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the

  • Colossians 3:22 (0)

    Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of