57 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

"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 set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's enemies will be the members of his household.read more.
"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever 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. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever 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 accompanied by a promise, namely, "that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth."

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

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind, and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up. You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.read more.
Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates.

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

For I know what I have planned for you,' says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.

When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's customary practice.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him."

Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; he will bring you happiness.

"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" Jesus said to him, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment.read more.
The second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

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

Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on his faithful followers.

"'But I said to their children in the wilderness, "Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

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

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

Honor your father and your mother just as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely, "that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth."read more.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,

"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked, "Who are these people with you?" Jacob replied, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

and in order that in the hearing of your son and your grandson you may tell how I made fools of the Egyptians and about my signs that I displayed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord."

we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the Lord's praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

Then he blessed Joseph and said, "May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked -- the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

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

He asked him urgently, "My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live."

Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also praises her:

His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.

Be assured that the evil person will certainly be punished, but the descendants of the righteous will not suffer unjust judgment.

They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. For the Lord will bless their children and their descendants.

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

This is what the Lord says: "Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord's law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.

My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things.

If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail, his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. They must declare to the elders of his city, "Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say -- he is a glutton and drunkard."read more.
Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

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

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk. Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.