Here are 36 Bible verses about parents love from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
Colossians 3:21 KJV
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Matthew 7:11 KJV
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Luke 18:29 KJV
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Matthew 15:4 KJV
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,
Numbers 14:18 KJV
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Ephesians 6:4 KJV
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Psalms 27:10 KJV
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:14 KJV
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Luke 14:26 KJV
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.
Malachi 4:6 KJV
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Proverbs 22:6 KJV
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Proverbs 3:12 KJV
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Deuteronomy 21:18 KJV
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Proverbs 4:10 KJV
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Ephesians 6:1 KJV
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
1 Kings 3:25 KJV
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 1:8 KJV
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Leviticus 19:3 KJV
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Exodus 20:12 KJV
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
1 Kings 3:19 KJV
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Proverbs 4:3 KJV
And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
1 John 3:1 KJV
For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Proverbs 13:24 KJV
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Proverbs 17:6 KJV
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 13:1 KJV
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs 23:22 KJV
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Colossians 3:20 KJV
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Matthew 19:19 KJV
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Ephesians 6:2 KJV
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Luke 21:16 KJV
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Ephesians 6:3 KJV
And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
Proverbs 23:13 KJV
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Proverbs 19:14 KJV
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 15:20 KJV
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Matthew 10:21 KJV
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Matthew 10:37 KJV
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
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