20 Bible Verses about Not Honouring Parents

He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

He is not to defile himself for his father or mother, or his brother or sister, when they die, because the hair consecrated to his God is on his head.

There is a generation that curses its father
and does not bless its mother.

Whoever curses his father or mother—
his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

As for the eye that ridicules a father
and despises obedience to a mother,
may ravens of the valley pluck it out
and young vultures eat it.

“Whoever curses his father or his mother must be put to death.

“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on his own hands.

For God said:

Honor your father and your mother; and,
The one who speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.

For Moses said:

Honor your father and your mother; and
Whoever speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.

The one who assaults his father and evicts his mother
is a disgraceful and shameful son.

‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.

Surely a son considers his father a fool,
a daughter opposes her mother,
and a daughter-in-law is against her mother-in-law;
a man’s enemies are the men of his own household.

he does not have to honor his father.’ In this way, you have revoked God’s word because of your tradition.

But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is Corban’” (that is, a gift committed to the temple),

“you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

He said about his father and mother,
“I do not regard them.”
He disregarded his brothers
and didn’t acknowledge his sons,
for they kept Your word
and maintained Your covenant.