Bible Verses About Parental Love
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for parental love, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,130 votes, led by Ephesians 6:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Parental Love
Ephesians 6:4127 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 22:6101 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Colossians 3:1493 votes
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Exodus 20:1281 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Psalms 103:1366 votes
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
1 John 4:860 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Romans 5:852 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Colossians 3:2048 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1342 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.
Proverbs 13:2438 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 1:834 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
John 3:1630 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.
1 John 4:1025 votes
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Deuteronomy 6:4-924 votes
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
1 Peter 1:2224 votes
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Jeremiah 31:323 votes
The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Galatians 5:2223 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
1 John 3:123 votes
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Proverbs 29:1522 votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Proverbs 23:13-1419 votes
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Matthew 7:1219 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.
Romans 8:1-3917 votes
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 Thessalonians 2:1717 votes
Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
Deuteronomy 7:715 votes
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Proverbs 29:1715 votes
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
What does the Bible say about parental love?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 6:4 on the subject of parental love. Across 1,130 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 22:6, Colossians 3:14, Exodus 20:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.