Bible Verses About Respect for Parents

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

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.

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.

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

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: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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

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

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?

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.

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:

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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:

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

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.

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.

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.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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

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

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

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

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.

A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.