32 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents

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

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

"'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'

"that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

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

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

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

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

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

"You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

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

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

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

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.'"

for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.