Bible Verses About Death of a Parent

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.