Bible Verses About Hating Your Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for hating your parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 573 votes, led by Luke 14:26. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Hating Your Parents
Luke 14:26104 votes
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Deuteronomy 27:1662 votes
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Matthew 10:3735 votes
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Ephesians 6:122 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 15:2021 votes
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Exodus 20:1220 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
John 3:1620 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Proverbs 1:818 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
2 Corinthians 12:1418 votes
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Colossians 3:2018 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Exodus 20:516 votes
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Proverbs 22:616 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 30:1716 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.
Romans 5:815 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 6:415 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
1 John 1:915 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Galatians 5:2214 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
John 12:3-713 votes
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Psalms 127:3-511 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Matthew 10:2111 votes
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Romans 9:1-3311 votes
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Colossians 2:1-2311 votes
For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
1 John 4:19-2011 votes
We love him, because he first loved us.
John 15:1310 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ephesians 6:1-310 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
What does the Bible say about hating your parents?
Readers most often cite Luke 14:26 on the subject of hating your parents. Across 573 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 27:16, Matthew 10:37, Ephesians 6:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.