32 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents

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

For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and mother"; and, "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die by death."

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that your days may be made longer, and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives 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 Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. And you say, In what way have we despised Your name?

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

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.

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

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to 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 curses father or mother, let him die the death."

And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Honor all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you voided the commandment of God by your tradition.

You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God. I am Jehovah.

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

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

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

The eye that mocks at his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother;

My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

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

in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.

And any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.

Therefore give to all their dues; to the one due tax, the tax; tribute to whom tribute is due, fear to whom fear is due, and honor to whom honor is due.

Do not sharply rebuke an elder, but exhort as a father, and the younger ones as brothers,

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and your mother.

for they shall add length of days, and long life, and peace to you.