14 Bible Verses about Abusive Parents

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

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.

But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

The one who says "I have come to know God" and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,

An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.

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

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by strength and power. That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself."

You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'"