20 Bible Verses about Not Honouring Parents

He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.

Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head.

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

"Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.

"'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban"' (that is, given to God)--

then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

who said of his father and mother, 'I regard them not'; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.