33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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 all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

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

Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden 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.

When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Jehovah will take me up.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

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

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

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and'such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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

For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's children.

And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

For I came 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:

A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?