57 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

"Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn't come to send peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's foes will be those of his own household.read more.
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me. He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find 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 be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.read more.
You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.

Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?" Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment.read more.
A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

"Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives 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 be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."read more.
You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;

My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; and they shall tell the elders of his city, "This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard."read more.
All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock. By David.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.