14 Bible Verses about Abusive Parents

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

For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
But the Lord will take me up.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

“According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity
And those who sow trouble harvest it.

Do not associate with a man given to anger;
Or go with a hot-tempered man,

An angry man stirs up strife,
And a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.

Honor your father and mother; and You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

You know the commandments, ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”