Colossians 3:20

Which verses does Colossians 3:20 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Exodus 20:1263 votes

   Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

2. Ephesians 6:1–360 votes

   Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), …

3. Proverbs 6:2013 votes

   My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

4. Matthew 15:4–610 votes

   For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ …

5. Matthew 19:1910 votes

   honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”

6. Leviticus 19:39 votes

   Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

7. Deuteronomy 27:169 votes

   ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

8. Proverbs 30:178 votes

   As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

9. Proverbs 30:116 votes

   There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

10. Malachi 1:64 votes

    “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

11. Ephesians 5:244 votes
12. Colossians 1:104 votes
13. Proverbs 20:203 votes
14. Titus 2:93 votes

    Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

15. Hebrews 13:213 votes
16. Genesis 28:72 votes
17. Deuteronomy 21:18–212 votes
18. Ezekiel 22:71 vote
19. Philippians 4:181 vote
20. Colossians 3:220 votes

    Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.

Which verses point to Colossians 3:20?

The 10 strongest of 15.

• Ephesians 6:1 66
• Exodus 20:12 64
• Ephesians 5:22 42
• Deuteronomy 5:16 33
• Proverbs 16:7 13
• Ephesians 6:5 9
• Colossians 1:10 8
• Colossians 3:22 5
• Ruth 3:5 4
• Jeremiah 35:8 4