Bible Verses About Disobeying Your Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for disobeying your parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,731 votes, led by Colossians 3:20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Disobeying Your Parents
Colossians 3:20429 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1-3328 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Exodus 21:15277 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus 20:12265 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21229 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:
Ephesians 6:1173 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
John 14:15135 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 John 2:1-29119 votes
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1 Samuel 15:23112 votes
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
2 Timothy 3:2110 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Proverbs 13:24102 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Exodus 21:1797 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Proverbs 22:686 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
James 4:785 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Leviticus 20:975 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.
Matthew 21:28-3267 votes
But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
James 1:2265 votes
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Proverbs 1:864 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 30:1764 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.
Deuteronomy 27:1661 votes
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Leviticus 19:355 votes
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Proverbs 23:2251 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Proverbs 20:2050 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Romans 3:2347 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Ephesians 6:1-2447 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
What does the Bible say about disobeying your parents?
Readers most often cite Colossians 3:20 on the subject of disobeying your parents. Across 4,731 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 6:1-3, Exodus 21:15, Exodus 20:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.