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Colossians 3:20
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
- KJV
- Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
- WEB
- Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
- ASV
- Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
- LSV
- the children: obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the LORD;
- YLT
- the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
- DBY
- Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord.
- DRC
- Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
- GNV
- Children, obey your parents in all thing for that is well pleasing vnto the Lord.
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text read ἐν (“in”); Textus Receptus read τῷ (“to the”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place εὐάρεστόν elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: εὐάρεστόν ἐστιν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read εὐάρεστόν ἐστιν; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐστιν εὐάρεστον.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- Τὰ τέκνα, ὑπακούετε τοῖς γονεῦσιν κατὰ πάντα, τοῦτο γὰρ εὐάρεστόν ἐστιν ἐν κυρίῳ.
- RP2018
- Τὰ τέκνα, ὑπακούετε τοῖς γονεῦσιν κατὰ πάντα· τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν εὐάρεστον ἐν κυρίῳ.
- TR-Boyd
- Τὰ τέκνα, ὑπακούετε τοῖς γονεῦσι κατὰ πάντα· τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν εὐάρεστον τῷ Κυρίῳ.
- SCR1894
- τα τεκνα υπακουετε τοις γονευσιν κατα παντα τουτο γαρ εστιν ευαρεστον τω κυριω
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Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Ephesians 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
- Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
- Matthew 15:4–6For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a…
- Matthew 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Proverbs 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
- Proverbs 30:11There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
- Malachi 1:6“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 is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask,…
- Ephesians 5:24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
- Colossians 1:10so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
- Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
- Titus 2:9Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,
- Hebrews 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Genesis 28:7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
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