Bible Verses about โobeying parentsโ
The Bible contains 19 verses about obeying parents across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โYou fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.โ
โChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.โ
โFor men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,โ
โ"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.โ
โ"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:โ
โ"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."โ
โIf you love me, keep my commandments.โ
โChildren, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.โ
โMy son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:โ
โListen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.โ
โFor God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'โ
โ"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.โ
โ"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.โ
โFor Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'โ
โWhoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.โ
โMy son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.โ
โAnd he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.โ
โA wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.โ
โ"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.โ
