33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

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

Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.

For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.

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

That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

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

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

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

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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

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

You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

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

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

For I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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

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

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy in him.

I have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

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

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?