33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

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

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: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour 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 unto the Lord.

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

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.

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

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.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be 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 the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, 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 bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall 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. {THE END OF THE PROPHETS.}

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

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall 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 am come 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 honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD 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 which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?