14 Bible Verses about Honouring Parents

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

Respect your mother and father. Observe my days of worship. I am Jehovah your God!

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you.

God said, 'Honor your father and mother.' 'He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.'

Honor your father and your mother, and Love your neighbor as yourself.

Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother. He also said: 'He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.'

You know the commandments, do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.

You know the commandments, do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, and do not bear false witness. Honor your father and mother.

Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise.

except for your mother, father, son, daughter, brother,

A priest must not make himself unclean by going near a dead body. But a priest may become unclean if the dead person is his father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or unmarried sister.

Jehovah of Hosts declares to the priests: Children honor their parents and servants honor their masters. I am your father. Why do you not honor me? I am your master. Why do you not respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask: How have we despised you?

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.