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Colossians 3:20 KJV
Colossians · chapter 3 · verse 20
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.Colossians 3:20 · King James Version
Colossians 3:20 in context
18Wives, 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:
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Key words (Strong's)
- Childrenteknonoffspring, children, child, a male child, a son, metaph., the name transferred to that…G5043 →
- pleasingeuarestoswell pleasing, acceptableG2101 →
- parentsgoneusfathers, parent, the parentsG1118 →
- obeyhypakouōto listen, to harken, of one who on the knock at the door comes to listen who it is, , to…G5219 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-25