33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

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

And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.

Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:

A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?