Bible Verses About Respecting Your Parents

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

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

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home , and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.