8 Bible Verses about Dishonouring Parents

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

My son, keep your father’s command,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.

My son, obey my words,
and treasure my commands.

Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

They will say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn’t obey us. He’s a glutton and a drunkard.’

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

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.

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

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

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),

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.