33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents
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"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:
"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
"Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.
"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.
Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
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