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Colossians 3:20
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Colossians 3:20
20Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing vnto the Lord.
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DEFINED WORDS
Colossians 3:20
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To hear with submission and do what is commanded; to comply with authority or instruction.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Gratifying; exciting agreeable sensations or emotions in; Gaining approbation; the act of gratifying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study12¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Open the full verse study1CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
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Open the full verse study20¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Open the full verse study4For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
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Open the full verse study19Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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Open the full verse study16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Open the full verse study3¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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Open the full verse study17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
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Open the full verse study11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
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Open the full verse study10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
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Open the full verse study24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
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Open the full verse study6¶ 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?
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Open the full verse study21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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Open the full verse study20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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Open the full verse study9Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
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Open the full verse study18¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
19Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
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Open the full verse study7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
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Open the full verse study7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
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Open the full verse study18But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
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Open the full verse study22Servants, 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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