57 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him {gives him} discipline.

Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace on 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 the enemies of a man [will be] the members of his household.read more.
The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not 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 right. "Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise), "in order that it may be well with you, and you may {live a long time} on the earth."

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

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.

And these words that I am commanding you {today} shall be on your heart. And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at [the time of] your living in your house and at [the time of] your going on the road and at [the time of] your lying down and at [the time of] your rising [up]. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as an emblem between your eyes.read more.
And you shall write them on the doorframe of your house and on your gates.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.

For I know the plans that I [am] planning concerning you,' {declares} Yahweh, 'plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.

{Then when} the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send}, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed} God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire.

For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him."

Discipline your children, and they will give you rest, and they will give delight to your soul.

"Teacher, which commandment [is] greatest in the law?" And he said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment.read more.
And the second [is] like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments depend all 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.

Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the following generation.

As a father pities [his] children, [so] Yahweh pities those who fear him.

"And I said to their children in the desert, 'You must not go in the statutes of your parents; you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols.

Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,

'Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, so that it will be good for you {in the land} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise), "in order that it may be well with you, and you may {live a long time} on the earth."read more.
And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

"For this [reason] a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

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

But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him that {a large millstone} be hung on his neck and he be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Then Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, "Who [are] these with you?" And he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

Look, children [are] the heritage of Yahweh; the fruit of the womb [is] a reward.

in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands [and to] love their children,

[The] living, [the] living one praises you like me today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children.

so that you will tell in the ears of your child and {your grandchild} that I dealt harshly with [the] Egyptians and [so that you will tell about] my signs that I have done among them, and so you will know that I [am] Yahweh."

We will not hide [them] from their children, telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done.

And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked, The God who shepherded me {all my life} unto this day,

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things that were going to happen.

And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job's daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

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

And he was imploring him many [times], saying, "My little daughter {is at the point of death}! Come, lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and will live."

Her children rise and consider her happy, her husband [also], and he praises her;

His {descendants} will be mighty in the land; [the] generation of [the] upright will be blessed.

{Rest assured}, the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

They shall not labor for nothing, and they shall not give birth to horror, for they {shall be offspring blessed by} Yahweh, and their descendants with them.

You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I [am] Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing [the] guilt of [the] parents on the children on [the] third and on [the] fourth [generations] of those hating me,

You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. [The] descendants of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity!

Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.

but they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, which their ancestors taught them."

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they have rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his rules, and their lies have led them astray, {after which their ancestors walked}!

Do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, my child. Do not be weary of his reproof because whomever Yahweh will love, he will rebuke, as a father delights in his son.

Finally, brothers, whatever [things] are true, whatever [things are] honorable, whatever [things are] right, whatever [things are] pure, whatever [things are] pleasing, whatever [things are] commendable, if [there is] any excellence of character and if anything praiseworthy, think about these [things].

"{If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son} [who] {does not listen to} the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his {town}, and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious; {he does not obey us}, [and] he is a glutton and a drunkard.'read more.
Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones and let him die; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all of Israel will hear, and they will fear.

Happy [shall be he] who seizes and smashes your children against the rock.

--wives to their own husbands as to the Lord,

{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

and said, 'On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

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

All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness. Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.