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What Does the Bible Say About Obeying Parents?

Here are 17 Bible verses about obeying parents, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Ephesians 6:1-3

    Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

    BSBChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”

  2. #2Colossians 3:20

    Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

    BSBChildren, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

  3. #3Exodus 20:12

    Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

    BSBHonor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

  4. #4Proverbs 1:8

    My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

    BSBListen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

  5. #5Deuteronomy 5:16

    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.

    BSBHonor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so 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.

  6. #6Matthew 15:4

    For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

    BSBFor God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

  7. #7Leviticus 19:3

    Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

    BSBEach of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

  8. #8Proverbs 23:22

    Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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

  9. #9Proverbs 30:17

    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.

    BSBAs for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

  10. #10Proverbs 6:20

    My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

    BSBMy son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

  11. #11Ephesians 6:1

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

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

  12. #12Ephesians 6:4

    And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

    BSBFathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  13. #13Mark 7:10

    For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

    BSBFor Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

  14. #14Proverbs 13:1

    A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

    BSBA wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

  15. #152 Timothy 3:2

    For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

    BSBFor men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

  16. #16Proverbs 20:20

    Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

    BSBWhoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.

  17. #17Luke 2:51

    And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

    BSBThen He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

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