32 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents

Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth.

Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God.

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

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

Honour thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.

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

Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king.

and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

Before the hoary head thou shalt rise up, and shalt honour the face of an old man; and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

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

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

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

elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

Whatever man revileth his father and his mother shall certainly be put to death: he hath reviled his father and his mother; his blood is upon him.

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

Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren,

Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

for length of days, and years of life, and peace shall they add to thee.