48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

They will be at war, the father against his son, and the son against his father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.

Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven.

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.

And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.

It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.

If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.

Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.

So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:

It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.