Verse 20

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

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  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Eph 5:24 : 24 As the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. 2 "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 so that it may go well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
  • Titus 2:9 : 9 Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, aiming to be well-pleasing and not argumentative.
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 equip you with every good thing to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Gen 28:7 : 7 Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and went to Paddan-Aram.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 I have received full payment, and more than enough. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
  • Col 3:22 : 22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them, 19 his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. 20 They shall say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not listen to us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses their father or mother, their lamp will be extinguished in utter darkness.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am a father, where is the honor I deserve? If I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. But you ask, 'How have we despised your name?'
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 But you say that if anyone declares to their father or mother, ‘What you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ 6 they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"