32 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents

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

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

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

Honor your father and your mother just as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

"A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, 'How have we made light of your name?'

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

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must 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 is pleasing in the Lord.

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

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

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

Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.

he does not need to honor his father.' You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the Lord.

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

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

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

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

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother -- the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

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

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart as to Christ,

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters -- with complete purity.

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.

"'If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'"

for they will provide a long and full life, and they will add well-being to you.