Bible Verses about “respecting parents”
The Bible contains 16 verses about respecting parents across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.”
“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“"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."”
“Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.”
“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”
“The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.”
“My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:”
“and they shall tell the elders of his city, "This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard."”
“"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.”
“If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;”
“then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;”
“All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.”
“"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.”