Bible Verses About Honoring Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for honoring parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 55,352 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 Honoring Parents
Exodus 20:122,224 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Colossians 3:201,817 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1-31,659 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 20:201,542 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Ephesians 6:11,316 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 23:221,251 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Ephesians 6:21,155 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Ephesians 6:2-31,147 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Proverbs 30:171,146 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.
Ephesians 6:1-241,060 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
1 Timothy 5:81,033 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.
Deuteronomy 5:16981 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.
Ephesians 6:1-4957 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Leviticus 20:9955 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.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21939 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:
Exodus 21:17908 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Ephesians 6:4888 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 27:16828 votes
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Exodus 21:15826 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Proverbs 1:8-9773 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Leviticus 19:3736 votes
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:32721 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.
1 Timothy 5:1698 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
1 Peter 5:5-6676 votes
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Proverbs 22:6660 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
What does the Bible say about honoring parents?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:12 on the subject of honoring parents. Across 55,352 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:20, Ephesians 6:1-3, Proverbs 20:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.