18 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

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

For God commanded saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die with death.

honor the father and the mother, and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

that it may be well with you, and you may live long upon the earth.

He that loveth father and mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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

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

If any one comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and even yet his own soul, he is not able to be my disciple.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not spare: for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for the children,

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, in order that they may not be discouraged.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

And this is the divine love, that we may walk about according to his commandments; this is the commandment, That, as you heard from the beginning, that you may walk about in it.

And fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ye husbands, love your wives with divine love, and be not harsh towards them.

Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

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

Therefore if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask Him?