47 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

A father will be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons.

And he who smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

He who robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.

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

For he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

and will be for a Father to you, and ye will be for sons and daughters to me, says Lord Almighty.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Jesus answered, Neither this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the works of God might be manifested in him.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

For even thy brothers, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to thee.

And do not designate a father of you upon the earth, for one is your Father, he in the heavens.

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

For what is there which ye were inferior to the other congregations? Except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

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

Every man shall fear his mother, and his father. And ye shall keep my Sabbaths. I am LORD your God.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in Lord.

And he who does wrong will be recompensed what he did wrong, and there is no partiality.

And I said to their sons in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers. Neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

See that ye not disparage one of these little ones, for I say to you, that in the heavens their agents do always behold the face of my Father in the heavens.

LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth gene

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and Joseph brought the evil

The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of a righteous man shall be upon him, and the wickedness of a wicked man shal

It is in the power of my hand to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

A wise son [hears] his father's instruction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men,

In those days they shall no more say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the son's teeth are set on edge.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhor shall be forsaken.

If one man sins against another, God shall judge him, but if a man sins against LORD, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they did not hearken to the voice of their father, because LORD intended to kill them.

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.

And be ye not like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.

Do not rebuke an elder man, but entreat him as a father, younger men as brothers,

Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

And ye will be betrayed even by parents, and kinsmen, and friends, and brothers. And some of you they will condemn to death.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.