Colossians 3:20 · KJV
“Children, obey {your} parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
— Colossians 3:20
Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.
Fathers, provoke not your children {to anger}, lest they be discouraged.
Colossians 3 — Context
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
19Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.
20Children, obey {your} parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
21Fathers, provoke not your children {to anger}, lest they be discouraged.
22Servants, obey in all things {your} masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Cross References
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.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Matthew 19:19
Honour thy father and {thy} mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed {be} he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I {am} the LORD your God.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye {that} mocketh at {his} father, and despiseth to obey {his} mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. {the valley: or, the brook}