33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'

honor your father and your mother, and love your neighbor as yourself."

"in order that it may be well with you, and you may {live a long time} on the earth."

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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

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

'Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, so that it will be good for you {in the land} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

If my father or my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will receive me.

Each [of you] must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I [am] Yahweh your God.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.

Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

When I was a son to my father, tender and alone before my mother,

For length of days, years of life, and peace they shall add to you.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

And he will bring back [the] hearts of [the] fathers to [the] sons, and the hearts of [the] sons to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land [with] a ban."

Honor all [people], love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.

The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons,

And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

The crown of the elderly [are] {grandchildren}, and the glory of children [is] their fathers.

For I have come to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

"A son honors [his] father, and a slave his master; but if I [am] a father, where [is] my honor, and if I [am] a master, where [is] my reverence?" says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, {who despise} my name. "But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

Therefore if you, [although you] are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?