Bible Verses About Respecting Your Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for respecting your parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 128,212 votes, led by Exodus 20:12. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Respecting Your Parents
Exodus 20:125,090 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Ephesians 6:1-44,021 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 3:203,701 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Ephesians 6:13,498 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 1:82,866 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Ephesians 6:42,704 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 5:162,672 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 22:62,613 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Exodus 21:172,553 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Ephesians 6:1-32,381 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 30:172,296 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.
Leviticus 19:32,289 votes
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18-212,210 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:
Hebrews 13:172,096 votes
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Proverbs 29:151,975 votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Leviticus 19:321,925 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.
Proverbs 13:241,894 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Ephesians 6:21,845 votes
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Romans 13:1-71,790 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Proverbs 23:221,565 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Proverbs 20:201,516 votes
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
1 Peter 2:171,483 votes
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Proverbs 10:11,408 votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Deuteronomy 27:161,390 votes
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Matthew 15:41,339 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.