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 prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

God said, 'Honor your father and mother.' 'He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.'

Honor your father and your mother, and Love your neighbor as yourself.

Then it will go well with you, and you may live long on the 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 in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.

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

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you.

You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Even if my father and mother abandon (forsake) me, Jehovah will take care of me.

Respect your mother and father. Observe my days of worship. I am Jehovah your God!

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

Listen to your father who gave you life. Do not despise your mother when she is old.

My son, listen to the instruction of your father. Do not forsake the law of your mother.

Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.

This is love that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment that you heard from the beginning. You should walk in it.

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

I was my father's son, tender and the only son to my mother.

My precepts will give you a long, peaceful, and prosperous life.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers and bring them together again before I come and strike the earth with destruction (a curse).

Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Reverence and respect God. Honor the king.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice and he who gives birth to a wise child will receive joy from him.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

We have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Grandchildren are the crowns of old men. Fathers take pride in their children.

My coming will cause a separation. A man will be against his father and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Jehovah of Hosts declares to the priests: Children honor their parents and servants honor their masters. I am your father. Why do you not honor me? I am your master. Why do you not respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask: How have we despised you?

A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.

Even though you are a sinner, you know how to give good gifts to your children. Think how much more your Father in heaven gives good things to those who ask him!