19 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers, do not harass your children, lest you make them spiritless.

"father against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

then I will receive you and will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

"Neither he nor his parents sinned." replied Jesus; "it happened that the works of God might be made manifest in him.

"and call no one 'Father' on earth, for One is your Father in heaven.

In what respect, then, were you inferior to the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

"For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;

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

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.

For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

"See to it that you never despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father in heaven.

Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

"So you will become sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes his sun to rise upon sinners as well as saints, and sends rain upon the unjust and the just.

Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,

It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

"You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends.