20 Bible Verses about Not Honouring Parents

Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in utter darkness.

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.

And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.

For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:

And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

He that mistreats his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.

Cursed be he that dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

In you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

For the son dishonors the father, 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.

And honors not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God void by your tradition.

But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift devoted to God, whatsoever you might have received from me; he shall be free.

And you allow him no more to do anything for his father or his mother;

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.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed your word, and kept your covenant.