57 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.

Whoever does not discipline his son hates him, but whoever loves him is diligent to correct him.

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword! I came to turn "a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A person's enemies will include members of his own family.'read more.
"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. The one who doesn't take up his cross and follow me isn't worthy of me. The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it."

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. "Honor your father and mother"" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.) ""so that it may go well for you, and that you may have a long life on the earth."

"Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

(Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.)

Let these words that I'm commanding you today be always on your heart. Teach them repeatedly to your children. Talk about them while sitting in your house or walking on the road, and as you lie down or get up. Tie them as reminders on your forearm, bind them on your forehead, read more.
and write them on the door frames of your house and on your gates."

Fathers, do not make your children resentful. Otherwise, they'll become discouraged.

For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, "plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a future and a hope.

When their time of feasting had concluded, Job would rise early in the morning to send for them and consecrate them to God. He would offer a burnt offering for each one, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children sinned by cursing God in their hearts." Job did this time and again.

Discipline your son while there is still hope but don't set your heart on his destruction.

Indeed, I've made myself known to him in order that he may encourage his sons and his household that is born after him to keep the way of the LORD, and to do what is right and just, so that the LORD may bring about for Abraham what he has promised."

Correct your son and he will comfort you; he will also delight your soul.

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus told him, ""You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and most important commandment. read more.
The second is exactly like it: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments."

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

Pass it on to your children, and from your children to their children, and from their children to the following generation.

As a father has compassion for his children, so the LORD has compassion for those who fear him.

I told their children in the wilderness, "You are not to follow the statutes of your ancestors, observe their ordinances, or be defiled by their idols.

Don't withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with a rod, he won't die.

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.

""Honor your father and your mother, just as the LORD your God commanded you, so that you will live long and things will go well for you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. "Honor your father and mother"" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.) ""so that it may go well for you, and that you may have a long life on the earth."read more.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.

"That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

"Honor your father and mother"" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.)

"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned at the bottom of the sea.

When Esau eventually looked around, he saw the women and the children. "Who are these people with you?" he asked.

Children are a gift from the LORD; a productive womb, the LORD's reward.

They should encourage the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

The living yes the living they thank you, just as I am doing today; fathers will tell their children about your faithfulness.

so you may tellyour children and your grandchildren how I toyed with the Egyptians and about my miraculous signs that I performed among them, so all of youmay know that I am the LORD.

We will not withhold them from their descendants; we'll declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD his might and awesome deeds that he has performed.

Then Israel blessed Joseph by saying: "May the God in whose presence my ancestors Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has continued shepherding me my whole life even until today,

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

No one could find more beautiful women in the whole land than Job's daughters. Their father gave them their inheritance along with their brothers.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grieves his mother.

So Abraham responded to God, "If only Ishmael would live in constant awareness that you're always with him!"

and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."

Her children stand up and encourage her, as does her husband, who praises her:

His descendants will be powerful in the land, a generation of the upright who will be blessed.

Be sure of this: the wicked will not go unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous will go free.

They won't toil in vain nor bear children doomed to misfortune, for they will be offspring blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.

You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the guilt of parents on children, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

you will not be united with them in burial, for you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. People will never mention the descendants of those who practice evil again!

Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.

Instead, they followed their rebellious hearts and the Baals, as their ancestors taught them."

This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Judah and now for a fourth I will not turn away; because they rejected the Law of the LORD and did not keep his statutes. Their own lies made them wander off, following along the same path their ancestors walked.

My son, do not reject the LORD's discipline, and do not despise his correction, because the LORD corrects the person he loves, just as a father corrects the son he delights in.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is fair, whatever is pure, whatever is acceptable, whatever is commendable, if there is anything of excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy keep thinking about these things.

"If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents, and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them, then his parents are to seize him and bring him before the elders at the gate of his city. Then they are to declare to the elders of their city: "Our son is stubborn and rebellious. He does not obey us. He lives wildly and is a drunkard.' read more.
Then all the men of his city are to stone him with boulders so that he dies. This is how you will remove this evil from among you. Then all Israel will hear of it and will be afraid."

How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff!

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

Let no filthy talk be heard from your mouths, but only what is good for building up people and meeting the need of the moment. This way you will administer grace to those who hear you.

and said, "That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, quarreling, and slander be put away from you, along with all hatred. And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.