56 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

Think not that I came to spread peace on the earth. I came not to spread peace, but a sword. For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes, are those of his own household.read more.
He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me. And he who does not take his cross and follow behind me, is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life because of me will find it.

Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right. Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.

Take heed to yourselves. And if thy brother should sin against thee, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart. And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up. And thou shall bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.read more.
And thou shall write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were completed, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my so

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of LORD, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoke

Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest, yea, he will give delight to thy soul.

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? And Jesus said to him, Thou shall love Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the first and great commandment.read more.
And the second is like it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law, and the prophets.

For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Tell ye your sons of it, and [let] your sons [tell] their sons, and their sons another generation.

Like as a father pities his sons, So LORD pities those who fear him.

And I said to their sons in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers. Neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Honor thy father and thy mother, as LORD thy God commanded thee, that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right. Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.read more.
And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh.

Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,

But whoever may cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it is advantageous for him that a donkey-powered millstone were hanged on his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given thy servant.

Lo, sons are a heritage of LORD, [and] the fruit of the womb is [a] reward.

so that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.

and that thou may tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought upon Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them, that ye may know that I am LORD.

We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau about things coming.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

and besought him much, saying, My little daughter has a terminal condition, so that having come, thou may lay thy hands on her, that she may be saved and will live.

Her sons rise up, and call her blessed. Her husband [also], and he praises her.

His seed shall be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Hand in hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity. For they are the seed of the blessed of LORD, and their offspring with them.

Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Thou shall not be joined with them in burial, because thou have destroyed thy land. Thou have slain thy people. The seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.

Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of LORD, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, accord

My son, despise not the chastening of LORD, nor be weary of his reproof. For whom LORD loves he reproves, {and he whips every son whom he receives (LXX/NT)}.

Finally brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are commendable, if anything is a virtue, and if

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken to them, then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place. And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice. He is a glutton, and a drunkard.read more.
And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Happy shall he be who takes and dashes thy little ones against the rock.

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh?

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

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil. And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.