Bible Verses About Honoring Parents

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.

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

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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

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

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

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.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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?

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

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

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

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

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: