Colossians 3:20 BSB

Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Τὰ	Ta	you who [are]	G3588 →
τέκνα,	tekna	Children,	G5043 →
ὑπακούετε	hupakouete	do obey	G5219 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
γονεῦσιν	goneusin	parents	G1118 →
κατὰ	kata	in	G2596 →
πάντα·	panta	all things;	G3956 →
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
εὐάρεστόν	euareston	pleasing	G2101 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
κυρίῳ.¶	kuriō	Lord.	G2962 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 5:16
  Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ephesians 6:1–3
  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- Mark 7:10
  For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
- Proverbs 23:22–25
  Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
- Leviticus 19:3
  Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Through
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
leads to
- Ephesians 6:1
  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- Deuteronomy 27:16
  ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Through
Matthew 19:19
honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
leads to
- Leviticus 19:18
  Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.Ephesians 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.Deuteronomy 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.Proverbs 16:7When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.Matthew 15:4–6For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’Matthew 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Proverbs 30:17As 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.Proverbs 30:11There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.Colossians 1:10so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,Malachi 1:6“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?’Ephesians 5:24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.Ruth 3:5“I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered.Jeremiah 35:8And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.Hebrews 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

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