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100 Bible Verses about Obeying Your Parents

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 865 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 732 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.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 596 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 457 helpful votes

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

John 14:15 ESV / 366 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 340 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.”

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 329 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 276 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 263 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.

Ephesians 6:2-3 ESV / 257 helpful votes

“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.”

Acts 5:29 ESV / 255 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 254 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.

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 244 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 222 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 217 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 202 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 193 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 189 helpful votes

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

1 John 2:6 ESV / 178 helpful votes

Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 174 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 27:16 ESV / 163 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:4 ESV / 152 helpful votes

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 147 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.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 146 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.

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 143 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 138 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 136 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 22:6 ESV / 132 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 128 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,

Exodus 21:15 ESV / 122 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 117 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 112 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:3 ESV / 108 helpful votes

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

1 John 1:9 ESV / 106 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Leviticus 20:9 ESV / 103 helpful votes

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 102 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 101 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

John 3:3 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

2 John 1:6 ESV / 88 helpful votes

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

Luke 14:26 ESV / 88 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.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 82 helpful votes

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 82 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. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...

Galatians 3:26 ESV / 82 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 82 helpful votes

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 82 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Psalm 55:23 ESV / 81 helpful votes

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Exodus 21:17 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 77 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 76 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.”

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Colossians 3:22 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Acts 10:34 ESV / 73 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

Romans 2:13 ESV / 72 helpful votes

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

Romans 1:30 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 71 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Romans 3:31 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Mark 10:11 ESV / 71 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 69 helpful votes

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 68 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 7:2 ESV / 68 helpful votes

For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 68 helpful votes

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 66 helpful votes

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 66 helpful votes

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 66 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 64 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 63 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.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 63 helpful votes

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Deuteronomy 21:18 ESV / 63 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,

Romans 13:1 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

John 15:14 ESV / 61 helpful votes

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 56 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Luke 2:51 ESV / 56 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.

James 1:22 ESV / 55 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 54 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Romans 5:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Acts 24:24 ESV / 53 helpful votes

After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 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, ...

Colossians 4:5 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

James 1:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Mark 7:10 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 48 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.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 47 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 46 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 46 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 42 helpful votes

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...

John 8:44 ESV / 42 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Luke 13:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

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