33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself."

"that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth."

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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

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

Honor your father and your mother just as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

for they will provide a long and full life, and they will add well-being to you.

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

He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."

Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

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

"A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, 'How have we made light of your name?'

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!