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Top 25 Bible Verses About Taking Care Of Parents (KJV)

This is a hand-curated and ranked list of 25 of the most relevant Bible verses about Taking Care Of Parents (KJV). Verses are ranked by number of votes.

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1 Timothy 5:8

#1
138 votes
8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

1 Timothy 5:4

#2
100 votes
4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Ephesians 6:2

#3
64 votes
2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

Ephesians 6:1-4

#4
38 votes
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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Ephesians 6:2-3

#6
36 votes
2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Proverbs 23:22

#7
35 votes
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Colossians 3:20

#8
34 votes
20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
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Exodus 20:12

#10
32 votes
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Ephesians 6:4

#11
24 votes
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Hebrews 13:5

#12
23 votes
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
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Mark 7:11-13

#14
23 votes
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Acts 5:29

#15
20 votes
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

James 1:27

#16
20 votes
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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2 Corinthians 12:14

#18
19 votes
14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Leviticus 19:32

#19
19 votes
32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 5:16

#20
19 votes
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.
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Ephesians 5:33

#22
18 votes
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Ephesians 6:1-3

#23
17 votes
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

1 Corinthians 10:13

#24
17 votes
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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Proverbs 22:6

#26
17 votes
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 30:17

#27
16 votes
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.

1 Timothy 5:3-4

#28
14 votes
3 Honour widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

1 Timothy 3:4

#29
14 votes
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

John 3:16

#30
13 votes
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Matthew 15:4-6

#31
1 votes
4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; 6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
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