48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.

Fathers, do not make your children resentful. Otherwise, they'll become discouraged.

They will be divided father against son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

I am a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother's sons.

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.

Whoever steals from his father or mother but claims, "It's no sin," is a companion to someone who demolishes.

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

"Anyone who curses his father or mother is certainly to be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother, so his guilt will remain his responsibility."

I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters," declares the Lord Almighty.

Discipline your son while there is still hope but don't set your heart on his destruction.

The rod and rebuke bestow wisdom, but an undisciplined child brings shame to his mother.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

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

Indeed, even your brothers and your father's family conspire against you. Even they cry out after you loudly. Don't believe them, even though they speak friendly words to you.

And don't call anyone on earth "Father,' because you have only one Father, the one in heaven.

The eye that mocks a father and looks with a disobedient attitude at a mother the valley ravens will pluck it out; and vultures will eat it.

How were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I did not bother you for help? Forgive me for this wrong!

This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.

Because God said, "You are to honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

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

"Each of you is to fear his mother and father. "Observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

A child's heart has a tendency to do wrong, but the rod of discipline removes it far away from him.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

For the person who does what is wrong will be paid back for what he has done without favoritism.

I told their children in the wilderness, "You are not to follow the statutes of your ancestors, observe their ordinances, or be defiled by their idols.

"See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, because I tell you, their angels in heaven always have access to my Father in heaven.

"The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he won't acquit the guilty. He recalls the iniquity of fathers to the third and fourth generation.'

This is a record of Jacob's descendants.

The soul who sins dies. The son won't bear the punishment of his father's sin and the father won't bear the punishment of his son's sin. The righteous deeds of that righteous person will be attributed to him, while the wicked deeds of the wicked person will be charged against him.

It's actually in my power to do some serious evil to you, but last night the God of your father told me, "Be careful what you say to Jacob whether good or evil.'

A wise son heeds a father's correction, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

I will be a father to him, and he will be to me a son who, when he commits iniquity, I will discipline with the rod wielded by armies and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

"In those days people will no longer say, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have been set on edge.'

"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you they're giving you confusing directions."

Don't withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with a rod, he won't die.

However, before the youth knows enough to reject what's wrong and choose what's right, the land whose two kings you dread will be devastated."

If a person sins against another, God will mediate for him, but if a person sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?"

Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.

so that you will become children of your Father in heaven, because he makes his sun rise on both evil and good people, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.

"Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know.

Never abandon your friend nor your father's friend, and don't go to your brother's house in times of trouble. A neighbor who is near is better than a brother who lives far away.

Never speak harshly to an older man, but appeal to him as if he were your father. Treat younger men like brothers,

What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death.

Even a child is known by his actions, whether his deeds are pure and right.