33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

"Honour thy father and mother," that is the first commandment that hath any promise,

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in 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, shall suffer death.'

Honour father and mother: and thou shalt love thine neighbor as thyself."

"that thou mayst be in good estate, and live long on the earth."

He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

'Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: that thou mayest prolong thy days, and that it may go well with thee on the land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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

Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

When my father and my mother forsake me, the LORD taketh me up.

See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Behold what love the father hath showed on us, that we should be called the sons of God. For this cause the world knoweth you not; because it knoweth not him.

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

A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.

And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

For when I myself was my father's dear son, and tenderly beloved of my mother,

For they shall prolong the days and years of thy life, and bring thee peace.

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

He shall turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, that I come not and smite the earth with cursing."

See that ye honour all men. Love brotherly fellowship, fear God, and honour the King.

for a righteous father is marvelous glad of a wise son, and delighteth in him.

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

And this commandment have we of him: that he which loveth God, should love his brother also.

Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

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:

"Should not a son honour his father, and a servant his master? If I be now a father, where is mine honour? If I be the LORD, where am I feared? sayeth the LORD of Hosts, now, to you priests that despise my name. And if ye say, 'Wherein have we despised thy name?'

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

If ye then, which are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask of him?