Bible Verses About Dishonor Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for dishonor parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,559 votes, led by Exodus 20:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Dishonor Parents
Exodus 20:12273 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 27:16137 votes
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Colossians 3:20111 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1-3103 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 6:178 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
1 John 2:3-669 votes
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
Deuteronomy 21:18-2163 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 20:2056 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Leviticus 20:951 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.
Exodus 21:1744 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:1541 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Leviticus 19:336 votes
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 5:1633 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 22:633 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 1:831 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Matthew 15:430 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Colossians 3:2130 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
2 Timothy 3:229 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Exodus 21:12-1727 votes
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Proverbs 23:2227 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Luke 1:3727 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Ephesians 6:1-427 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Revelation 1:127 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:
Leviticus 19:3226 votes
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 13:2426 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
What does the Bible say about dishonor parents?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:12 on the subject of dishonor parents. Across 2,559 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 27:16, Colossians 3:20, 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.