Colossians 3:20
dChildren, obey your parents in eall things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
τὰ τέκνα, ὑπακούετε τοῖς γονεῦσι κατὰ πάντα· τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν εὐάρεστον τῷ Κυρίῳ.
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d:
Ephesians 6:1-6:3 1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
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.
Proverbs 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 6:20 ¶My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Malachi 1:6 ¶A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
e:
Titus 2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Acts 5:29 ¶Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
By children he understands both males and females.
he requires them to yield humble subjection to those that brought them forth, or have just authority over them; see Exo 20:12 Eph 6:1; paying reverence to them, Lev 19:3 Heb 12:9; observing their holy and prudent prescriptions, Luk 2:51; showing piety and kindness to them in all grateful offices, 1Ti 5:4, and submitting to their parental discipline, Jer 35:6 Heb 12:9.
in whatsoever is agreeable to the mind of the supreme Governor, who is absolute Sovereign, Act 4:19 5:29.
and this upon the most cogent reason imaginable, because it is not barely pleasing, but
or very acceptable, to the Lord, who arms parents with authority over their children, Eph 6:1-3.