20 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents

"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--

For God said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';

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

Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, 'He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'

And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice.

Honour every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.

he shall be absolved from honouring his father'; and so you have abrogated God's Word for the sake of your tradition.

Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.

Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.

As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

Pay promptly to all men what is due to them: taxes to those to whom taxes are due, toll to those to whom toll is due, respect to those to whom respect is due, honour to those to whom honour is due.

Never administer a sharp reprimand to a man older than yourself; but entreat him as if he were your father, and the younger men as brothers;

Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?

They were secret backbiters, open slanderers; hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of sin, disobedient to parents, destitute of common sense,

You know the Commandments: 'Do not commit adultery;' 'Do not murder;' 'Do not steal;' 'Do not lie in giving evidence;' 'Honour thy father and thy mother.'"