57 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.

He withholding his rod hates his son: and he loving him, sought correction for him.

Straiten to a youth upon the mouth of his way, also when he shall grow old he will not depart from it.

Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.

Think not that I came to cast peace upon earth; I came not to cast peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the bride against her mother-in-law. And a man's enemies, they pertaining to his household.read more.
He loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me; and he loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me. And whoever takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me. He finding his soul shall lose it; and he having lost his soul for my sake shall find it.

Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;) That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth.

Attend to yourselves: and if thy brother sin against thee, censure him; and if he should repent, let him go.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.

And these words which I command thee to do shall be upon thy heart; And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up. And bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for bands between thine eyes.read more.
And write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates.

Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.

For I knew the purposes which I purposed concerning you, says Jehovah; purposes of peace, and not for evil, to give to you the last part and expectation.

And it will be that the days of drinking went round, and Job will send and consecrate them, and he rose early in the morning and brought up burnt-offerings for the number of them all: for Job said, Perhaps my sons sinned, and blessed God in their hearts. Thus did Job all the days.

Correct thy son when there is hope, and thy soul shall not lift up for his sighing.

For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.

Correct thy son and he shall cause thee to rest, and he shall give delight to thy soul.

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

For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the bride against her mother-in-law.

Concerning it recount to your sons, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.

As a father compassionating over his sons, Jehovah compassionated those fearing him.

And saying to their sons in the desert Ye shall not go in the laws of your fathers, and their judgments ye shall not watch, and with their blocks ye shall not be defiled.:

Thou shalt not withhold instruction from youth: if thou shalt strike him with a rod he shall not die.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee, so that thy days shall be prolonged and so that it shall be good to thee upon the land that Jehovah thy God gave to thee,

Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;) That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth.read more.
And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.

For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;)

And whoever should offend one of these little ones believing in me, it is profitable for him that the millstone of an ass be hung upon his neck, and he be sunk in the midst of the sea.

And he will lift up his eyes and will see the women and the children, and he will say, To whom these to thee? And he will say, The children with whom God compassionated thy servant.

Behold, sons are the inheritance of Jehovah: the reward of the fruit of the womb.

That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,

The living; the living, he shall praise thee, as from me this day the father to the sons shall make known for thy truth.

And that thou shalt recount in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I performed in Egypt, and my signs which I set up among them; and ye knew that I am Jehovah.

It was not hid from their sons, to a later generation recounting the praises of Jehovah and his strength, and his wonders which he did.

And he will bless Joseph, and will say, God, before whom my fathers went, Abraham and Isaak, the God having fed me, from ever since I was till this day.

By faith concerning things about to be, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

And women were not found fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land: and their father will give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.

And Abraham will say to God, O for Ishmael to live before thee

And he besought him much, saying, That my little daughter is at the last extremity: that, having come, thou Mightest put the hands upon her, so that she might be saved; and she shall live.

Her sons rose up and they will call her happy; her husband, and he will praise her.

His seed shall be great in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be praised.

Hand to hand, the evil one shall not be unpunished: and the seed of the just were delivered.

They shall not labor in vain, and they shall not bring forth for terror; for they the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.

Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me;

Thou shalt not be united with them in the grave, for thou destroyedst thy land, and didst slay thy people: the seed of those doing evil shall not be called forever.

Our fathers sinned, they are not; we bore their iniquities.

And they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baalims which their fathers taught them.

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn it back from him, for their rejecting the instructions of Jehovah, and they watched not his laws, and their lies caused them to err which their fathers went after them.

My son, thou shalt not reject the instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt not loathe upon his reproofs: For whom Jehovah shall love he will rebuke, as a father the son he will delight in.

As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.

If there shall be to a man a son stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they chastised him, and he will not hear to them: And his father and his mother laid hold on him and brought him to the old men of his city, and to the gate of his place; And they said to the old men of of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he heard not to our voice; he is vile, and drinking to excess.read more.
And all the men of his city stoned him with stones, and he died: and put thou away evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear and shall fear.

Happy he taking hold and dashing in pieces thy children against the rock.

Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.

And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness: And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.