37 Bible Verses about Parents Love

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

“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.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

When I was a son to my father,
Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,

A wise son accepts his father’s discipline,
But a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

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

Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
And the glory of sons is their fathers.

And He said to them, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

For whom the Lord loves He reproves,
Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man despises his mother.

Hear, my son, and accept my sayings
And the years of your life will be many.

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

But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

This woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on it.

Do not hold back discipline from the child,
Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’

Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”

For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
But the Lord will take me up.

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

He who withholds his rod hates his son,
But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.