32 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 mother, and, He that curses father or mother, let him die without recourse.

Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be lengthened upon the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God has commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.

The son honours his father and the slave his master; if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is my fear? said the LORD of the hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what have we despised thy name?

that it may be well with thee, and thou may live long on the earth.

Ye shall fear, every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths. I AM your God.

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

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto 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, Whosoever curses father or mother shall most definitely die.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

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

and now has no need to honour his father or his mother with succour. Thus ye have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

Thou shalt rise up before grey hair and honour the face of the elder and fear thy God. I am the LORD.

Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.

The wise son makes a glad father, but the foolish man despises his mother.

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises the teaching of his mother, the ravens shall pluck it out of the river, and the young eagles shall eat it.

My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Slaves, be obedient to those that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto the Christ,

the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.

loving one another with brotherly love, with honour preferring one another;

For any man that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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 an elder, but intreat him as a father, and the younger men as brethren,

Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Thou knowest the commandments, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

For they shall add length of days and long life and peace unto thee.