18 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

"Honor your father and mother" (which, indeed, is the first commandment with a promise),

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'He that speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die,'

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

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

"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 own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and, further, his own soul also, he cannot be My disciple.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be disheartened.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandment. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter toward them.

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

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

for I came to set a man at variance with his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

If, therefore, ye, 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 asking Him?