Colossians 3:20

Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 27:16
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Proverbs 1:9
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

Jeremiah 35:8
We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

Malachi 1:6
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says Yahweh of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Luke 18:20
You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”

Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

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Proverbs 16:7
When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

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Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Romans 14:18
For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

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Colossians 3:1
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:23
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Colossians 3:25
But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Colossians 4:18
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.

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