Bible Verses About Honoring Your Parents

1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

2. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

3. Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

4. My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

5. “Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

6. “‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

7. My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

8. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

9. Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

10. For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

11. Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Verses quoted from the World English Bible (public domain).

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