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  • Colossians 3:20
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 20 You children, be obedient to your parents in everything,+ for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

  • Colossians 3:20
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 20 Τὰ The τέκνα, children, ὑπακούετε be YOU obeying τοῖς to the γονεῦσιν parents κατὰ according to πάντα, all (things), τοῦτο this γὰρ for εὐάρεστόν well-pleasing ἐστιν is ἐν in κυρίῳ. Lord.

  • Colossians 3:20
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 20 YOU children, be obedient+ to [your] parents in everything, for this is well-pleasing in [the] Lord.

  • Colossians 3:20
    The Bible in Living English
    • 20 Children, obey your parents in every respect, for this is a winsome way in the Lord.

  • Colossians 3:20
    American Standard Version
    • 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

  • Colossians 3:20
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 20 Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord;

  • Colossians 3:20
    King James Version
    • 20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

  • Colossians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2023
    • 3:20 w23.10 7; lff lesson 50; it-2 522; w95 6/1 28-29; w92 10/1 28-29; w89 3/15 7; tp 138-139

  • Colossians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 3:20 w80 5/15 7-8; w78 9/1 6; fl 162; w77 164; yy 75-76; w73 671; tp73 141-142; w72 733; ad 1241; w70 148; g70 9/22 27; w64 494; w62 204; w57 182; w38 119

  • Colossians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 3:20

      Enjoy Life Forever!, lesson 50

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 522

      The Watchtower,

      6/1/1995, pp. 28-29

      10/1/1992, pp. 28-29

      3/15/1989, p. 7

      5/15/1980, pp. 7-8

      9/1/1978, pp. 5-6

      3/15/1977, p. 164

      11/1/1973, p. 671

      12/1/1972, p. 733

      3/1/1970, p. 148

      8/15/1964, pp. 493-494

      4/1/1962, pp. 203-205

      3/15/1957, pp. 182-183

      True Peace, pp. 138-139

      Youth, pp. 75-76

      Peace and Security, pp. 141-142

      Awake!,

      9/22/1970, p. 27

  • Colossians Study Notes—Chapter 3
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 3:20

      be obedient: The Greek expression comes from a verb that has the basic meaning “listen.” Here it is used in the sense of hearing parental direction and complying with it in everything. Naturally, “everything” would include obedience in all things that are in harmony with God’s will; Paul did not mean to include matters that involved disobedience to God. Paul’s audience would have understood that such misplaced obedience would not be “well-pleasing to the Lord.”​—Compare Lu 2:51 and study note; Ac 5:28, 29; Eph 6:1, 2.

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