33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

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

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

"that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever 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.

"'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and 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, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in.

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

See what kind of love the Father has given to 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, so that you should walk in it.

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

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

When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,

for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

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

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction."

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

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

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

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

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.

"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 the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'

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

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!