20 (A)[a]Children, obey your parents in [b]all things: for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

21 [c]Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

22 (B)[d] Servants, be obedient unto them that are your masters according to the flesh, in all things, not with eye service as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:20 He requireth of children, that according to God’s Commandment they be obedient to their parents.
  2. Colossians 3:20 In the Lord, and so is it expounded, Eph. 5:19.
  3. Colossians 3:21 Of parents, that they be gentle towards their children.
  4. Colossians 3:22 Of servants that fearing God himself to whom their obedience is acceptable, they reverently, faithfully, and from the heart, obey their masters.

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