48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

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

They shall be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's children.

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.

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

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; nd set not thy heart on his destruction.

The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven.

The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

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

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear the guilty , visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

A wise son heareth his father's instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke.

I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.

If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because Jehovah was minded to slay them.

having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

But ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and'some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.