125 honor your mother and father bible verse

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125 honor your mother and father bible verse

125 honor your mother and father bible verse

The Ultimate Collection: Honor Your Father and Mother Scripture

 

I. The Commandments & The Law (The Foundation)

 

The direct biblical mandates regarding parental honor.

1. Exodus 20:12 – “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”

2. Deuteronomy 5:16 – “Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”

3. Leviticus 19:3 – “Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.”

4. Matthew 15:4 – “For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’”

5. Matthew 19:19 – “Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”

6. Mark 7:10 – “For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’”

7. Mark 10:19 – “You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”

8. Luke 18:20 – “You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”

9. Ephesians 6:1 – “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.”

10. Ephesians 6:2 – “Honor your father and mother—which is the first commandment with a promise—”

11. Ephesians 6:3 – “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”

12. Colossians 3:20 – “Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”

II. Wisdom Literature (Proverbs & Ecclesiastes)

 

Practical wisdom on the blessings of listening to parents and the folly of despising them.

13. Proverbs 1:8 – “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.”

14. Proverbs 1:9 – “They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.”

15. Proverbs 4:1 – “Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.”

16. Proverbs 4:2 – “I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching.”

17. Proverbs 4:3 – “For I too was a son to my father, still tender, and cherished by my mother.”

18. Proverbs 4:4 – “Then he taught me, and he said to me, ‘Take hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands, and you will live.'”

19. Proverbs 6:20 – “My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.”

20. Proverbs 6:21 – “Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.”

21. Proverbs 6:22 – “When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.”

22. Proverbs 10:1 – “A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.”

23. Proverbs 13:1 – “A wise son heeds his father’s instruction, but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.”

24. Proverbs 15:5 – “A fool spurns a parent’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.”

25. Proverbs 15:20 – “A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.”

26. Proverbs 17:6 – “Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”

27. Proverbs 17:21 – “To have a fool for a child brings grief; there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.”

28. Proverbs 17:25 – “A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.”

29. Proverbs 19:13 – “A foolish son is his father’s ruin.”

30. Proverbs 19:26 – “Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace.”

31. Proverbs 20:20 – “If someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.”

32. Proverbs 22:28 – “Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.” (Respect for heritage).

33. Proverbs 23:15 – “My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed.”

34. Proverbs 23:16 – “My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.”

35. Proverbs 23:22 – “Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”

36. Proverbs 23:24 – “The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.”

37. Proverbs 23:25 – “May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful!”

38. Proverbs 28:7 – “A discerning son keeps a law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.”

39. Proverbs 28:24 – “Whoever robs their father or mother and says, ‘It’s not wrong,’ is partner to one who destroys.”

40. Proverbs 29:3 – “A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father.”

41. Proverbs 29:15 – “A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.”

42. Proverbs 30:11 – “There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.”

43. Proverbs 30:17 – “The eye that mocks a father, that scorns an aged mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures.”

44. Proverbs 31:28 – “Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.”

45. Ecclesiastes 3:1 – “To everything there is a season…” (Context: caring for aging parents in their season).

III. Warnings & Consequences (The Severity of Dishonor)

 

Biblical laws showing how seriously God views disrespect toward parents.

46. Exodus 21:15 – “Anyone who attacks their father or mother is to be put to death.”

47. Exodus 21:17 – “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.”

48. Leviticus 20:9 – “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.”

49. Deuteronomy 21:18 – “If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him…”

50. Deuteronomy 21:19 – “his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.”

51. Deuteronomy 21:20 – “They shall say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.'”

52. Deuteronomy 21:21 – “Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.”

53. Deuteronomy 27:16 – “Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother. Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’”

54. Ezekiel 22:7 – “In you they treat father and mother with contempt; in you they oppress the foreigner and mistreat the fatherless and the widow.”

55. Micah 7:6 – “For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’s enemies are the members of his own household.”

56. 2 Timothy 3:1 – “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.”

57. 2 Timothy 3:2 – “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy.”

58. Romans 1:29 – “They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.”

59. Romans 1:30 – “slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents.”

IV. Caring for Family (New Testament Application)

 

The obligation to care for parents in their old age.

60. 1 Timothy 5:1 – “Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,”

61. 1 Timothy 5:2 – “older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.”

62. 1 Timothy 5:4 – “But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.”

63. 1 Timothy 5:8 – “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

64. Mark 7:11 – “But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—”

65. Mark 7:12 – “then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.”

66. Mark 7:13 – “Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

67. Matthew 15:5 – “But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’”

68. Matthew 15:6 – “they are not to ‘honor their father’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.”

69. John 19:26 – “When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, ‘Woman, here is your son,'”

70. John 19:27 – “and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother.’ From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.” (Jesus honoring his mother even at death).

V. Biblical Examples of Honor and Lineage

 

Narratives and verses showing respect for ancestors and parents.

71. Genesis 28:7 – “And that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.”

72. Genesis 46:29 – “Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time.”

73. Genesis 47:12 – “Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.”

74. Genesis 48:12 – “Then Joseph removed them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.”

75. Ruth 1:16 – “But Ruth replied, ‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.'”

76. Ruth 2:11 – “Boaz replied, ‘I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland…'”

77. 1 Samuel 22:3 – “From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, ‘Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?'”

78. 1 Kings 2:19 – “When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king’s mother, and she sat at his right hand.”

79. Esther 2:20 – “But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai’s instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.”

80. Luke 2:51 – “Then he [Jesus] went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.”

81. Hebrews 12:9 – “Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!”

82. Jeremiah 35:6 – “But they replied, ‘We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jonadab son of Rekab gave us this command: Neither you nor your descendants must ever drink wine.'” (The Rechabites honored their ancestor).

83. Jeremiah 35:18 – “Then Jeremiah said to the family of the Rechabites, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have followed all his instructions and have done everything he ordered.'”

84. Jeremiah 35:19 – “Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab son of Rekab will never fail to have a descendant to serve me.'”

85. Malachi 1:6 – “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?”

VI. Related Principles of Authority & Elders

 

Honoring parents is part of the broader command to honor age and authority.

86. Leviticus 19:32 – “Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord.”

87. 1 Peter 5:5 – “In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another.”

88. Titus 2:2 – “Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.”

89. Job 12:12 – “Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?”

90. Proverbs 16:31 – “Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.”

91. Psalm 71:9 – “Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.”

92. Psalm 71:18 – “Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.”

93. Isaiah 46:4 – “Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.”

94. Genesis 9:23 – “But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.” (Protecting parental dignity).

95. Exodus 18:19 – “Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you.” (Jethro advising Moses).

96. Exodus 18:24 – “Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.”

97. Proverbs 27:10 – “Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your father…”

98. 2 Samuel 19:32 – “Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years of age. He had provided for the king during his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.” (Respect for the aged).

99. 2 Timothy 1:5 – “I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.” (Honoring the lineage of faith).

100. 3 John 1:4 – “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” (The reciprocal joy of the parent).