Bible Verses About Disrespectful Children
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for disrespectful children, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 11,252 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 Disrespectful Children
Leviticus 20:9624 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.
Colossians 3:20573 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21485 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 30:17470 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.
Exodus 21:15446 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Matthew 15:4405 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
2 Timothy 3:1-5395 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Ephesians 6:1393 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 13:24368 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Exodus 20:12283 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 21:17276 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Proverbs 20:20251 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Mark 7:9-10245 votes
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Hebrews 10:26221 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
1 John 2:1-29215 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:
Romans 13:1179 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Ephesians 6:1-4166 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
John 14:1147 votes
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
1 John 4:4139 votes
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Proverbs 22:6125 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:1-3125 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Philippians 2:3118 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Deuteronomy 21:18117 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:
Romans 8:26109 votes
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Isaiah 3:5104 votes
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
What does the Bible say about disrespectful children?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 20:9 on the subject of disrespectful children. Across 11,252 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:20, Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Proverbs 30:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.