What Does the Bible Say About Listening To Your Parents?

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 62 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.

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 51 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 1:8-10 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 41 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 / 25 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 23 helpful votes

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 19 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.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 5:2-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

John 3:16 ESV / 12 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.

Proverbs 4:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—

3 John 1:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 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.

1 Samuel 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

23 Bible Verses about Listening To Your Parents

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8-10 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:2-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

3 John 1:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Samuel 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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23 Bible Verses about Listening To Your Parents

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Exodus 20:12 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8-10 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:2-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

3 John 1:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Samuel 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes