Bible Verses About Parental Approval

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

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

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.

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?

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:

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

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

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

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.

For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

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

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

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.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

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

Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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.

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

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

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

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.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

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

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.