God's command to honor one's parents is a fundamental principle throughout Scripture. In Exodus 20:12, this directive is included as one of the Ten Commandments, emphasizing its importance. The wisdom literature, such as Proverbs 1:8, encourages children to heed their parents' instruction, while the New Testament letters, including Ephesians 6:1-4 and Colossians 3:20, reiterate the significance of obedience and respect towards parents as a way of honoring God. By teaching children to respect their parents, the Bible promotes a sense of authority, responsibility, and reverence for the family unit.
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Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Children, 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.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Honor 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.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown, and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Children, 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.”