Colossians 3:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Colossians 3:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …
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. …
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-25)

The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to relative duties, as before in the epistle to the Ephesians. The epistles which are most taken up in displaying the glory of divine grace, and magnifying the Lord Jesus, are the most particular and distinct in pressing the duties of the several relations. We must never separate the privileges and duties of the gospel religion. I. He begins with…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. (Ep 6:1.) unto the Lord--The oldest manuscripts read, “IN the Lord,” that is, this is acceptable to God when it is done in the Lord, namely, from the principle of faith, and as disciples in union with the Lord.