20 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

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

Think not that I have come to send peace on the earth. I have not come to send peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law: and a man's enemies shall be those of his own household.read more.
He that loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me: and whoever does not take his cross and fol low after me, is not worthy of me. He that finds his life shall lose it; and he that loses his life for my sake, shall find it.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sin against you, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be disheartened.

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

For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.read more.
And you fathers, do not provoke your children to anger: but bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.

For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

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

but whoever ensnares one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

That they may teach the young women to be sober-minded, to love their husbands, to love their children,

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

and besought him earnestly, saying: My little daughter is at the point of death; come, lay thy hands on her, that she may be saved, and she will live.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue, or any praise, think of these things.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord:

Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:

and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

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

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice: and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.