33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

"Honor your father and mother"" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.)

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Because God said, "You are to honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

Jesus said, ""You must not murder, you must not commit adultery, you must not steal, you must not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,' and, "you must love your neighbor as yourself.'"

""so that it may go well for you, and that you may have a long life on the earth."

"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.

""Honor your father and your mother, just as the LORD your God commanded you, so that you will live long and things will go well for you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple.

Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.

Though my father and my mother abandoned me, the LORD gathers me up.

"Each of you is to fear his mother and father. "Observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

Fathers, do not make your children resentful. Otherwise, they'll become discouraged.

Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.

See what kind of love the Father has given us: We are called God's children and that is what we are! For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him, either.

And this is what demonstrates love: that we live according to God's commandments. Just as you have heard from the beginning what he commanded, you must live by it.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.

When I was a son to my father, not yet strong and an only son to my mother,

For they will add length to your days, years to your life, and abundant peace to you.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

and he will turn the hearts of fathers to children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I'll come, strike the land, and utterly destroy it."

Honor everyone. Keep on loving the community of believers, fearing God, and honoring the king.

The father of a righteous person will greatly rejoice; whoever fathers a wise son will be glad because of him.

I am a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother's sons.

And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the pride of children is their parents.

I came to turn "a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

"A son honors his father and a servant his master. So if I'm a father, where is my honor? And if I'm a master, where is my respect?" says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies to you priests who are despising my name. "But you ask, "How have we despised your name?'

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grieves his mother.

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who keep on asking him!