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What does the Bible say about disobeying your parents?

13 verses about disobeying your parents, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about disobeying your parents

  1. Colossians 3:20 — Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 8 votes
  2. Ephesians 6:1 — Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 7 votes
  3. Exodus 21:15 — And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 6 votes
  4. Exodus 20:12 — Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 5 votes
  5. Deuteronomy 21:18 — 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: 4 votes
  6. John 14:15 — If ye love me, keep my commandments. 3 votes
  7. Exodus 21:17 — And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 2 votes
  8. 1 Samuel 15:23 — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. 2 votes
  9. Proverbs 13:24 — He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. 2 votes
  10. Proverbs 22:6 — Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 2 votes
  11. 2 Timothy 3:2 — For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 2 votes
  12. James 4:7 — Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 2 votes
  13. 1 John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 votes

Where these verses are

Exodus (3), Proverbs (2), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Samuel (1), John (1), Ephesians (1), Colossians (1), 2 Timothy (1), James (1), 1 John (1)

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Topical Bible data by OpenBible.info (https://www.openbible.info/topics/), CC BY 4.0. Votes reflect how many readers judged each verse relevant; they are not a doctrinal ranking. Verse text: King James Version.