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 curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

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

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

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

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

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

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

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth 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 honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth 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 brethren, 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 thy word, and kept thy covenant.