18 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--

For God said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';

Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

"so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth."

Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

"If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us--that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us--because it has not known Him.

The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.

And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice.

Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.

Honour every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.

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

If you then, imperfect as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him!