20 Bible Verses about Not Honouring Parents

He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother;

He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.

There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

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

For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.

There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

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.

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.

Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.