37 Bible Verses about Parents Love

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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

When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

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

honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself."

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

"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God's kingdom

For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

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

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.

"that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth."

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

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

A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

This woman's child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.'

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

The king then said, "Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!"

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.