Bible Verses About Parental Authority

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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:

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

And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

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.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

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

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.

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

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

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.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

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

For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?