20 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.

"Do not suppose 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, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's enemies will be members of his own family.read more.
Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me, and nobody is worthy of me who does not take up his cross and follow me. Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

Children, obey your parents, for this is right. "You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good "so that you may prosper and live a long life on earth."

"Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him.

Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.

"Teacher, what sort of command is greatest in the law?" And He answered him, "'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.' This is the greatest command, and is first in importance.read more.
The second is like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' The essence of the whole law and the prophets is packed into these two commands."

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

Children, obey your parents, for this is right. "You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good "so that you may prosper and live a long life on earth."read more.
You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.

Therefore, a man must leave his father and mother and so perfectly unite himself to his wife that the two shall be one.

"You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good

But whoever leads one of these little ones, who believe in me, to do wrong, had better have a great millstone hung around his neck to sink him to the bottom of the sea.

so as to train the younger women to be affectionate wives and mothers,

By faith Isaac put his blessings for the future on Jacob and Esau.

and kept earnestly begging Him, saying, "My dear little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live."

Now, brothers, practice thinking on what is true, what is honorable, what is right, what is pure, what is lovable, what is high-toned, yes, on everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

You must stop letting any bad word pass your lips, but only words that are good for building up as the occasion demands, so that they will result in spiritual blessing to the hearers.

and said, 'For this reason a man must leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them must be one!'

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

You must remove all bitterness, rage, anger, loud threats, and insults, with all malice. You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.