Bible Verses About Parental Relationships

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

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.

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.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon 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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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.

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.

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:

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

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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

For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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.

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

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

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

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

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?