33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

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

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and mother"; and, "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die by death."

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

so 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 all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

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

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that your days may be made longer, and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.

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

Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise 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 given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

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

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

And fathers, do not provoke 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 only beloved in the sight of my mother.

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

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

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, that I not come and strike the earth with utter destruction.

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

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he who fathers a wise child shall have joy from him.

I have become a stranger to My brothers, and a foreigner to My mother's children.

And we have this commandment from Him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Sons of sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

For I have come to set a man 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 am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My fear? says Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. And you say, In what way have we despised Your name?

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him?