32 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents

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

For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

'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.

"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?'

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

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

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

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

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

For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother,' and, 'Whosoever curseth father or mother, let him die for it.'

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

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

And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus have ye made, that the commandment of God is without effect, through your traditions.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoar head and reverence the face of the old man; and dread thy God, for I am the LORD.

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.

If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

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

Whoso laugheth his father to scorn, and setteth his mother's commandment at naught; the ravens pick out his eyes in the valley, and devoured be he of the young Eagles.

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

My son, keep thy father's commandments, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Servants, be obedient unto your carnal masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your hearts, as unto Christ:

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

Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.

"'Whosoever curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on his head, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

Give to every man therefore his duty: Tribute to whom tribute belongeth: Custom to whom custom is due: fear to whom fear belongeth: Honour to whom honour pertaineth.

Rebuke not an elder: but exhort him as a father, and the younger men as brethren,

Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live?

backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud, boasters, bringers-up of evil things, disobedient to fathers and mothers,

Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness; Honour thy father, and thy mother."

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