20 Bible Verses about Not Honouring Parents

neither shall go to any dead body nor make himself unclean: no not on his father or mother,

he shall not make himself unclean at the death of his father, mother, brother or sister: For the abstinence of his God is upon his head.

He that bringeth up an evil report upon the generation of his father and mother, is not worthy to be commended.

Whoso curseth his father and mother, his light shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Whoso laugheth his father to scorn, and setteth his mother's commandment at naught; the ravens pick out his eyes in the valley, and devoured be he of the young Eagles.

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

"'Whosoever curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on his head, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'

For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother,' and, 'Whosoever curseth father or mother, let him die for it.'

And he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die for it.

He that hurteth his father or shutteth out his mother, is a shameful and an unworthy son.

"'Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.

for the son shall put his father to dishonour, the daughter shall rise against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: and a man's foes shall be even they of his own household.

And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus have ye made, that the commandment of God is without effect, through your traditions.

But ye say, 'A man shall say to his father or mother, Corban; which is, that thou desirest of me, to help thee with, is given to God.'

And so ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother,

He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

"If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

He that sayeth unto his father and mother, 'I saw him not,' and unto his brethren, 'I knew not,' and to his son, 'I know not': for they have observed thy words and kept thy covenant.