20 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to turn 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 enemies will be in his own household.read more.
No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who will not take up his cross and follow me is worthy of me. Whoever gains his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it.

Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right. "You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth."

Look out for yourselves! If your brother wrongs you, take it up with him, and if he repents, forgive him.

Fathers, do not irritate your children, or they may lose heart.

"Master, what command is greatest in the Law?" And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.' That is the great, first command.read more.
There is a second like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' These two commands sum up the whole of the Law and the Prophets."

For I have come to turn a man against his father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right. "You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth." You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one.

"You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth."

But whoever hinders one of these children who believe in me might better have a great millstone hung around his neck and be sunk in the open sea.

so as to train the younger women to be loving wives and mothers,

Faith enabled Isaac to bequeath to Jacob and Esau blessings that were still to be.

and appealed to him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live!"

Now, brothers, let your minds dwell on what is true, what is worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is amiable, what is kindly??n everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

No bad word must ever pass your lips, but only words that are good and suited to improve the occasion, so that they will be a blessing to those who hear them.

and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them shall become one'? So they are no longer two but one.

Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right.

You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite. You must be kind to one another, you must be tender-hearted, and forgive one another just as God through Christ has forgiven you.