Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About obeying your parents
14 key scriptures
What does the Bible say about obeying your parents? Browse 14 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Colossians 3:20 |
|---|---|
| King James (KJV) | “Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.” |
14 Key Scriptures
“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
Exodus 20:12KJV
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
Proverbs 1:8KJV
“If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
John 14:15KJV
“Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.”
“A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.”
“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. the valley: or, the brook”
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”
Acts 5:29KJV
“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.”
“For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.”
Matthew 15:4KJV
“My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”
“Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.”
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