“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord — 'Obey' (hypakouo) to parents is commanded. 'In everything' (en pasin) is comprehensive. 'For this pleases the Lord' (euarestos en kyriō) frames obedience as pleasing Christ. Parental authority reflects divine order. Yet it is qualified by 'pleasing the Lord': if parental command contradicts Christ, Christ supersedes.
Church Fathers on Colossians 3:20
Why does he not give these commands everywhere, and in all the Epistles, but only here, and in that to the Ephesians, and that to Timothy, and that to Titus? Because probably there were dissensions in these cities; or probably they were correct in other respects, so that it was expedient they should hear about these things. Rather, however, what he says to these, he says to all. Now in these things also this Epistle bears great resemblance to that to the Ephesians, either…
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