57 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

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

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Do not think that I have come to send peace upon 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 they of his household shall be a man's enemies.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 up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth.

Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart; and thou shalt impress them on thy sons, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.read more.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

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

And it was so, when the days of the feasting were gone about, that Job sent and hallowed them; and he rose up early in the morning, and offered up burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; but set not thy soul upon killing him.

For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, in order that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what he hath spoken of him.

Chasten thy son, and he shall give thee rest, and shall give delight unto thy soul.

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

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;

Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation:

As a father pitieth his children, so Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.

And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth.read more.
And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

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

But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the depths 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 that God has graciously given thy servant.

Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, and the fruit of the womb a reward.

that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children,

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

and that thou mightest tell in the ears of thy son and thy son's son what I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

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

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

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

The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

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

and he besought him much, saying, My little daughter is at extremity; I pray that thou shouldest come and lay thy hands upon her so that she may be healed, and may live.

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her:

His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Hand for hand! an evil man shall not be held innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.

thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me,

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.

Our fathers have sinned, and they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked.

My son, despise not the instruction of Jehovah, neither be weary of his chastisement; for whom Jehovah loveth he chasteneth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.

If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them; then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is unmanageable and rebellious, he hearkeneth not unto our voice; he is a profligate and a drunkard.read more.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. And thou shalt put evil away from thy midst; and all Israel shall hear and fear.

Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

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

Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if there be any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear it.

and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

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

Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice; and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.