48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened.

The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother, the mother-in-law against her daughter- in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's sons.

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

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not your things, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Whosoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of the destroyer.

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

For any man that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, but do not stir up thy soul to destroy him.

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

Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

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

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have raised their voice after thee, O congregation; do not believe them, when they speak fair words unto thee.

And call no one your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens.

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises the teaching of his mother, the ravens shall pluck it out of the river, and the young eagles shall eat it.

For what is it in which ye were inferior to the other congregations except in that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

In this the sons of God are manifest, and the sons of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness and that loves not his brother is not of God.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother, and, He that curses father or mother, let him die without recourse.

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

Ye shall fear, every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths. I AM your God.

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

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

But he that does wrong shall receive the wrong which he has done, now that there is no respect of persons.

But I said unto their sons in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their laws, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in the heavens their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens.

The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, letting go of iniquity and transgression and absolving, but by no means absolving the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generations.

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him who is righteous, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him who is wicked.

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

A wise son takes his father's chastening: but a scorner does not hear 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 longer say, The fathers have eaten the sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

The oppressors of my people are many, and women rule over him. O my people, those who lead thee cause thee to err and twist the way of thy paths.

Do not withhold correction from the child; for if thou shall beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good; the land that thou dost abhor shall be forsaken of both her kings.

If one man sins against another, the judges shall judge him, but if someone sins against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they did not hearken unto the voice of their father because the LORD had already decided to kill them.

and have your honest conversation among the Gentiles, so that, in that which they murmur about you as of evildoers, having witnessed your good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.

that ye may be sons of your Father who is in the heavens, for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Our fathers have sinned and are dead; and we have borne their chastisements.

Do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who rebelled against the LORD God of their fathers and he gave them over to desolation, as ye see.

Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father's friend, neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity, for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father, and the younger men as brethren,

If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolk and friends, and some of you they shall cause to be put to death.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work is pure and whether it is right.