48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.

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

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

The one who robs his father and mother and says, "There is no transgression," is a companion to the one who destroys.

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

"'If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters," says the All-Powerful Lord.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

And call no one your 'father' on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother -- the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness -- the one who does not love his fellow Christian -- is not of God.

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

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

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

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

For the one who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there are no exceptions.

"'But I said to their children in the wilderness, "Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

"See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.'

This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer for his father's iniquity, and a father will not suffer for his son's iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness.

I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, 'Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.'

A wise son accepts his father's discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

"When that time comes, people will no longer say, 'The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have grown numb.'

Oppressors treat my people cruelly; creditors rule over them. My people's leaders mislead them; they give you confusing directions.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

Here is why this will be so: Before the child knows how to reject evil and choose what is right, the land whose two kings you fear will be desolate.

If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who then will intercede for him?" But Eli's sons would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided to kill them.

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

Don't be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.

Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

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

Even a young man is known by his actions, whether his activity is pure and whether it is right.