20 Bible Verses about Respecting Parents

"You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good

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

"so that you may prosper and live a long life on earth."

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

Children, practice obedience to your parents in everything, for this is acceptable in Christians.

You must practice honoring your father and mother. And you must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and again, 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death,'

You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.

Show honor to everyone. Practice love for the brotherhood; practice reverence to God and honor to the Emperor.

is under no obligation at all to help his parent.' So you have set aside what God has said for the sake of what has been handed down to you.

Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in the treatment of their own families, and to pay the debt they owe their parents or grandparents, for this is acceptable to God.

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, with perfect purity.

In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore,

Pay all of them what is due them -- tribute to the officer to receive it, taxes to the officer to receive them, respect to the man entitled to it, and honor to the man entitled to it.

Never reprove an older man, but always appeal to him as a father. Treat younger men like brothers,

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we used to treat them with respect; how much more cheerfully should we submit to the Father of our spirits, and live!

they are secret backbiters, open slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of evil, undutiful to parents,

You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness. Practice honoring your father and mother.'"