37 Bible Verses About Filial Piety

And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are these?

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.

For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.

What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.