18 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

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

For God said, Honor your father and mother; and he that reviles father or mother, let him surely die.

Honor your father and mother; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

that it may be well with you, and you shall live long in the land.

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 in the Lord.

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

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and still more his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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

Fathers, be not fault-finding with your children, that they be not discouraged.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

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

And, fathers, provoke not your children, but bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

Husbands, love the wives and be not bitter to them.

Honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

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

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him.