14 Bible Verses about Honouring Parents

Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

“Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep My Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.

Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

For God said:

Honor your father and your mother; and,
The one who speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.

honor your father and your mother;
and love your neighbor as yourself.

For Moses said:

Honor your father and your mother; and
Whoever speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.

You know the commandments:

Do not murder;
do not commit adultery;
do not steal;
do not bear false witness;
do not defraud;
honor your father and mother.”

You know the commandments:

Do not commit adultery;
do not murder;
do not steal;
do not bear false witness;
honor your father and mother.”

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

except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.

A priest may not come near a dead person so that he becomes defiled. However, he may defile himself for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.