Bible Verses About Cursing Your Parents
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for cursing your parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,577 votes, led by Leviticus 20:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Cursing Your Parents
Leviticus 20:9494 votes
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Proverbs 20:20388 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Matthew 15:4365 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Exodus 21:15360 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus 21:17269 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 20:12208 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 27:16193 votes
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 30:11188 votes
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21178 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 30:17149 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.
Revelation 1:1141 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
James 3:10130 votes
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Luke 1:37126 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Mark 7:10124 votes
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Proverbs 22:6122 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Psalms 109:17121 votes
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Matthew 5:22121 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Luke 6:2895 votes
Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
Leviticus 20:1393 votes
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Ephesians 4:2991 votes
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Exodus 20:790 votes
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
James 1:2690 votes
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
Ephesians 5:489 votes
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
James 5:1286 votes
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Psalms 59:1285 votes
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
What does the Bible say about cursing your parents?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 20:9 on the subject of cursing your parents. Across 8,577 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 20:20, Matthew 15:4, Exodus 21:15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.