37 Bible Verses about Parents Love

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.

When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.