31 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

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

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

Honor the father and mother, and, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in Lord.

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

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

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then LORD will take me up.

Every man shall fear his mother, and his father. And ye shall keep my Sabbaths. I am LORD your God.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

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

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

For I was a son to my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

For length of days, and years of life, and peace, they will add to thee.

Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.

And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

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

I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons.

And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.

Son's sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy na

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

If ye therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in the heavens will give good things to those who ask him?