Cross reference

Colossians 3:20

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

Exodus 20:12

12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Titus 2:9

9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

Ephesians 6:1-3

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."

Ephesians 5:24

24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Matthew 19:19

19 'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"

Philippians 4:18

18 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

Colossians 1:10

10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 3:22

22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Hebrews 13:21

21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Matthew 15:4-6

4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"

6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

Malachi 1:6

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 Hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

Leviticus 19:3

3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

18 If a man have 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;

19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

20 and they shall tell 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.

21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deuteronomy 27:16

16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.

Proverbs 6:20

20 My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 20:20

20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 30:11

11 There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

17 The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.

Ezekiel 22:7

7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Genesis 28:7

7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

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