57 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

He who spares the rod (authority) hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines (instructs) him promptly.

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

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

Do not think I came to bring peace on the earth. I came not to bring peace, but a sword. My coming will cause a separation. A man will be against his father and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies will be from his own family.read more.
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Anyone who does not pick up his stake and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it. Whoever loses his life for my sake 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 promise. Then it will go well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

So watch how you behave. Admonish your brother to repent when he sins. Forgive him when he repents.

This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

These words that I command you this day must be in your heart. Carefully teach them to your sons. Talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. Speak about them when you lie down, and when you rise up. Bind them for a sign upon your hand. They shall be as frontlets between your eyes.read more.
Write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they not be discouraged.

I know the plans (intentions) (thoughts) that I have for you, says Jehovah. They are plans (intentions) for peace and not disaster. They are intentions to give you a future filled with hope.

The morning after each feast, Job would get up early to offer sacrifices for each of his children in order to purify them. He always did this because he thought that one of them might have sinned by insulting God unintentionally.

Correct your son while there is hope. Do not contribute to his death.

I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household; and that they may remain in the righteous and just way of Jehovah. Jehovah will bring to Abraham what he told him.

Correct your son, and he will give you rest. Yes, he will give you delight.

Teacher what is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus told him: You shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart (Greek: kardia: feelings, emotions), and with all your being, and with your entire mind (Greek: dianoia: understanding). (Deuteronomy 6:5) This is the greatest and first commandment.read more.
The second like it is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' The law and the prophets are based on these two commandments.

My coming will cause a separation. A man will be against his father and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to each new generation.

Jehovah has compassion for those who reverence him just as a father has compassion for his children.

I said to their children in the desert: Do not live by the laws of your ancestors. Do not obey their rules or dishonor yourselves with their disgusting idols.

Do not withhold discipline from a child. If you spank him with a stick he will not die.

My son, listen to the instruction of your father. Do not forsake the law of your mother.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise. Then it will go well with you, and you may live long on the earth.read more.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and will stick (adhere) (cleave) (be joined) to his wife. The two will become one flesh.

Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise.

He who causes one of my faithful little ones to stumble is in trouble. It would be better for him to end up in the deep sea with a great stone tied to his neck.

Esau looked around and saw the women and the children. He asked: Who are these people with you? Jacob answered: These are the children whom God has been good enough to give me.

Children are an inheritance from Jehovah. They are a blessing from him.

They may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

The living, yes the living praise you, as I am doing today! Fathers tell their children about your faithfulness.

I did this because I want you to tell your children and your grandchildren about the mighty things and the signs I have done in Egypt. Then all of you will know that I am Jehovah.

We will not conceal them from their children, but tell to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength and his wondrous works that he has done.

Jacob blessed Joseph. He said: May God, in whose presence my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac walked, may this God who has been my shepherd all my life to this very day,

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.

Abraham said to God: If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!

He pleaded with him saying: My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her that she will be healed and live.

Her children arise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her.

His descendants will grow strong on the earth. The family of the upright will be blessed.

Hand in hand united, the wicked shall not be unpunished; but the descendants of the righteous will be delivered.

They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune. For they will be a people blessed by Jehovah, they and their descendants with them.

Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

You ruined your country and killed your own people. For that reason, you will not be buried like other kings. None of your evil family will survive.

Our fathers were sinners and are dead. The weight of their evil deeds is on us.

They have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals as their fathers taught them.

Jehovah continued: I will not withdraw punishment for the many transgressions of Judah. For they have rejected the Law of Jehovah! They have not kept his statutes. Their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

My son, do not despise Jehovah's discipline or be weary of his correction. For whom Jehovah loves He reproves, just like a father corrects the son he loves dearly. (Hebrews 12:6)

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen or obey his father or his mother when they chastise him, His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown. They shall say to the elders of his city: This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious! He will not obey us! He is a glutton and a drunkard.read more.
All the men of his city shall stone him to death. In that way you will remove the evil from your midst. All Israel will hear about it and fear.

Blessed is the one who grabs your little children and smashes them against a rock.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth. Speak what is good for understanding as the need may be, that it may give grace (divine favor) to those who hear.

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

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

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and screaming, and abusive speech, be put away (removed) (expiated) from you, along with all malice. You should be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also forgave you through (by means of) Christ.