18 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise),

God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

that it may be well with you and that you may live long on earth.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:

Children, obey your parents at every point, for this pleases the Lord right well.

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

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

Here am I all ready to pay you my third visit. And I will not be a burden to you; I want yourselves and not your money. Children have not to put money by for their parents; that is what parents do for their children.

Fathers, avoid irritating your children, in case they get dispirited.

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.

As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, do not be harsh to them.

Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor.

And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.

I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?