Bible Verses About Obeying Your Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for obeying your parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 13,895 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 Obeying Your Parents
Colossians 3:20862 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Exodus 20:12731 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Ephesians 6:1595 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 1:8455 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
John 14:15365 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Ephesians 6:1-3339 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 3:21329 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Proverbs 13:1275 votes
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs 30:17263 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 6:2-3257 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Acts 5:29256 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Deuteronomy 5:16253 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.
Matthew 15:4244 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Proverbs 6:20222 votes
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 23:22217 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Proverbs 3:1-2202 votes
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Ephesians 6:4193 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Leviticus 19:3189 votes
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
1 John 2:6178 votes
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
Proverbs 20:20174 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Deuteronomy 27:16163 votes
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
1 John 2:4152 votes
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
John 3:16-17147 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.
Ephesians 6:1-4146 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Timothy 3:2143 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
What does the Bible say about obeying your parents?
Readers most often cite Colossians 3:20 on the subject of obeying your parents. Across 13,895 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 20:12, Ephesians 6:1, Proverbs 1:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.