What Does the Bible Say About Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother?

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 181 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 154 helpful votes

“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 137 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 90 helpful votes

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 67 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Luke 18:20 ESV / 58 helpful votes

You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 57 helpful votes

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 32 helpful votes

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Exodus 21:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes

“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Colossians 3:20-21 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Exodus 21:15 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Proverbs 19:26 ESV / 26 helpful votes

He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Proverbs 17:25 ESV / 23 helpful votes

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Luke 14:26 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Deuteronomy 27:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Luke 2:51 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

John 19:25-27 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

Mark 7:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Mark 10:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Exodus 10:1-29 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them, and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.” So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field, ...

Proverbs 30:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 19:29 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Ezekiel 22:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

Proverbs 28:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

Ephesians 6:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

Psalm 100:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Deuteronomy 25:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Exodus 21:1-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

Jeremiah 35:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Exodus 19:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; ...

52 Bible Verses about Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 181 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 154 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 137 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 90 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 74 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Luke 18:20 ESV / 58 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 57 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 21:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:20-21 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 19:26 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Luke 14:26 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Luke 2:51 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 19:25-27 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Exodus 20:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 30:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:29 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 22:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 28:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 100:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 25:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 21:1-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 35:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 19:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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