32 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents

Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise.

God said, 'Honor your father and mother.' 'He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.'

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you.

Jehovah of Hosts declares to the priests: Children honor their parents and servants honor their masters. I am your father. Why do you not honor me? I am your master. Why do you not respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask: How have we despised you?

Then it will go well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

Respect your mother and father. Observe my days of worship. 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 in the Lord.

Honor your father and your mother, and Love your neighbor as yourself.

Moses said: 'Honor your father and your mother. He also said: 'He that speaks evil of father or mother must die.'

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Reverence and respect God. Honor the king.

You say there is no need for him to give honor to his father. You have invalidated the word of God because of your tradition!

Show respect to the elderly, and honor older people. In this way you show respect for your God. I am Jehovah.

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

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

The eye that mocks his father, and rejects obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

My son, listen to the instruction of your father. Do not forsake the law of your mother.

My son, obey your father's command, and do not abandon the law of your mother:

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

Treat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with much honor.

Be devoted to one another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another.

Jehovah gave the following regulations. Any of you that curse your father or mother shall be put to death. You are responsible for your own death.

Render therefore to all their due. Provide tribute to whom tribute is due. Give custom to whom custom is owed. Render fear to whom fear is owed and offer honor to whom honor is deserved.

Do not rebuke (censure) (criticize) an elder, but appeal to him as a father, the younger men as brothers.

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

backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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

My precepts will give you a long, peaceful, and prosperous life.