Bible Verses About Children Obeying Their Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for children obeying their parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,688 votes, led by Ephesians 6:1-4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Children Obeying Their Parents
Ephesians 6:1-4490 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 3:20465 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1347 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 6:1-3290 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Matthew 15:4280 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Exodus 20:12264 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Proverbs 1:8258 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 22:6196 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21164 votes
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Proverbs 13:24153 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Colossians 3:21145 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Proverbs 13:1-25132 votes
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Ephesians 6:2129 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Exodus 21:15127 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Ephesians 6:4112 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 5:16100 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Proverbs 30:1799 votes
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Proverbs 23:13-1488 votes
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 29:1582 votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Psalms 19:881 votes
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Ephesians 6:374 votes
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Proverbs 22:1570 votes
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 10:163 votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 19:1855 votes
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
1 Timothy 5:1-454 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
What does the Bible say about children obeying their parents?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 6:1-4 on the subject of children obeying their parents. Across 5,688 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:20, Ephesians 6:1, Ephesians 6:1-3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.