33 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents

honour thy father and mother,

'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

which is the first command with a promise, 'That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

'Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I am Jehovah your God.

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

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

For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.

For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!

to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.

and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

Sons' sons are the crown of old men, And the glory of sons are their fathers.

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

A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I am a father, where is Mine honour? And if I am a master, where is My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: 'In what have we despised Thy name?'

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?