The Bible teaches that children have a sacred responsibility to honor and respect their parents. In Exodus, one of the Ten Commandments instructs children to honor their father and mother, promising a long and blessed life as a result. The New Testament also emphasizes this obligation, with Ephesians and Colossians urging children to obey and please their parents in the Lord. As Proverbs notes, a child who heeds their parents' instruction is wise, and this theme is reinforced in Ephesians, where Paul exhorts children to obey their parents as a way of honoring God.
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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.
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.
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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.”
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
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.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.