Bible Verses About Grown Children Treating Their Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for grown children treating their parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,358 votes, led by Proverbs 23:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Grown Children Treating Their Parents
Proverbs 23:22294 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Exodus 20:12256 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Ephesians 6:1-3192 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 3:20159 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Proverbs 22:6136 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13135 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Deuteronomy 27:16120 votes
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Ephesians 6:4117 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 13:24116 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Matthew 7:12111 votes
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Proverbs 19:18110 votes
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
1 Timothy 5:8107 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Proverbs 20:20103 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Colossians 3:2199 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Ephesians 6:196 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 22:1586 votes
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Leviticus 20:984 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.
Romans 1:3083 votes
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans 13:878 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Ephesians 6:1-476 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Timothy 3:276 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Psalms 23:1-675 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Deuteronomy 5:1670 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 1:869 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Deuteronomy 21:18-2168 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:
What does the Bible say about grown children treating their parents?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 23:22 on the subject of grown children treating their parents. Across 5,358 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 20:12, Ephesians 6:1-3, Colossians 3:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.