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- Colossians
- Chapter 3
- Verse 20
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
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Gill's Exposition
Children, obey your parents,.... Both father and mother; See Gill on Eph 6:1.
in all things; not in things sinful, which are contrary to the law of God, and Gospel of Christ; in things repugnant to…
Barnes' Notes
Children, obey your parents ... - Notes, Eph 6:1-4.
Adam Clarke
Children, obey - in all things - That is, in the Lord - in every thing that your parents command you, which is not contrary to the will or word of God.
The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to relative duties, as before in the epistle to the Ephesians. The epistles which are most taken up in displaying the glory of divine grace, and…
Cambridge Bible
Children Cp. Eph 6:1-3.
obey The same word as that below, Col 3:22. The wife "submits herself" as to a guiding friend; the child, and the servant, recognize in parent and master a lawful commander.
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