Bible Verses About Respect for Family

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon 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 the Lord: for this is right.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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, Honour thy father and thy mother.

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

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

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

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

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.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

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

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

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

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.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

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.

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.

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

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