Colossians Chapter 3 verse 20 Holy Bible
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
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Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
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Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord.
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Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
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Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
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the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - To children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord (Ephesians 6:1, 2; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; Leviticus 19:3; Proverbs 23:22; Luke 2:51, 52). In Ephesians 6:1, 2 "in all things" (κατὰ πάντα, "in regard to all things") is wanting; and not the extent, but the intrinsic rightness of the command as it is found in the Decalogue is insisted on. But here, where "Christ is all and in all" (ver. 11), it is "in the Lord" (Revised Text) that the child's obedience is declared to be "well pleasing." There is something especially pleasing in the behaviour of a lovingly obedient child, that wins "favour" both "with God and man" (Luke 2:52). The law of filial obedience has its creative ground "in him" (Colossians 1:16), and is an essential part of the Christian order of life, which is the natural order restored and perfected. "Well pleasing" is a favourite word of St. Paul's (comp. Colossians 1:10; Ephesians 5:10; Philippians 4:8; Romans 14:18; Titus 2:9, etc.; used also in Hebrews).
