37 Bible Verses about Parents Love

He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

"If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

For when I myself was my father's dear son, and tenderly beloved of my mother,

A wise son will receive his father's warning; but he that is scornful, will not hear when he is reproved.

Honour father and mother: and thou shalt love thine neighbor as thyself."

Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

"Honour thy father and mother," that is the first commandment that hath any promise,

Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

And he said unto them, "Verily I say unto you, there is no man that leaveth house: other father and mother, other brethren, or wife, or children: for the kingdom of God's sake,

For whom the LORD loveth, him he chasteneth: and yet delighteth in him even as a father in his own son.

He shall turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, that I come not and smite the earth with cursing."

The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall arise against their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them to death,

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.

Hear, my son, and receive my words, that the years of thy life may be many.

"that thou mayst be in good estate, and live long on the earth."

Yea, and ye shall be betrayed of your fathers and mothers, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and lovers. And some of you shall they put to death.

Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

House and riches may a man have by the heritage of his elders; but a discreet woman is the gift of the LORD.

And this woman's child died in a night, for she had overlaid it.

Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die thereof.

If ye then, which are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask of him?

For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'

See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.

'The LORD is long yer he be angry, and full of mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man innocent, and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third and fourth generation.'

Behold what love the father hath showed on us, that we should be called the sons of God. For this cause the world knoweth you not; because it knoweth not him.

And then the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give the one half to the one, and the other to the other."

When my father and my mother forsake me, the LORD taketh me up.

If any man have a son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them:

If thou teachest a child in his youth what way he should go; he shall not leave it when he is old.

He that spareth the rod, hateth his son; but whoso loveth him, chastiseth him betimes.