Bible Verses About Parental Love

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

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 ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

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.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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

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

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

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;

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

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;