17 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

"You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth."

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'He who abuses his father or mother must be put to death.'

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

No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,

Children, always obey your parents, for that is commendable in Christians.

Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right.

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not irritate your children, or they may lose heart.

Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him.

Love means this, that we be guided by his commands. The command, as you have heard from the beginning, is to be guided by love.

You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

You who are husbands must love your wives and not be harsh to them.

Treat everyone with respect. Love the brotherhood, be reverent to God, respect the emperor.

This is the command that we get from him, that whoever loves God must love his brother also.

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

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!