48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

a father shall 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.'

A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.

'And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, 'It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood is on him.

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

Jesus answered, 'Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, Even they dealt treacherously against thee, Even they -- they called after thee fully, Trust not in them, when they speak to thee good things.

and ye may not call any your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I am Jehovah your God.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

Beware! -- ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

Jehovah is slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third generation, and on a fourth; --

These are births of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, hath been enjoying himself with his brethren among the flock, (and he is a youth,) with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and Joseph bringeth in an account of their evil unto their father.

The soul that doth sin -- it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

my hand is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father yesternight hath spoken unto me, saying, Take heed to thyself from speaking with Jacob from good unto evil.

A wise son -- the instruction of a father, And a scorner -- he hath not heard rebuke.

I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,

In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

My people -- its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.

If a man sin against a man, then hath God judged him; but if against Jehovah a man sin, who doth pray for him?' and they hearken not to the voice of their father, though Jehovah hath delighted to put them to death.

having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

and do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, God of their fathers, and He giveth them to desolation, as ye do see.

Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better is a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

'And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.