20 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents

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

For God commanded, saying "Honour thy father and thy mother:" and, He that curseth father or mother, let him surely die.

that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived upon earth."

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

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

For Moses said, "Honour thy father and thy mother:" and "he that curseth father or mother, let him assuredly be put to death."

And, ye fathers, exasperate not your children: but educate them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

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

then he shall not with it honour his father and mother: so have ye vacated the command of God by your tradition.

Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn as their first duty to shew their piety towards their own family, and make a grateful return to their progenitors: for this is becoming and acceptable before God.

Servants, be obedient to your masters after the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto Christ;

the aged women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour.

REBUKE not harshly an aged man, but admonish him as a father; the younger men as brethren;

If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents,

Thou knowest the commandments, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.