18 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'

honor your father and mother, and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"

"that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth."

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

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

"If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they will become discouraged.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God! And so we are! The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

And this commandment we have from him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

For I have come to set a man 'against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!