47 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, "That is no transgression," is a companion to a man who destroys.

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

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."

Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you."

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

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

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

"And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

"See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.'

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.'

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,

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

My people--infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

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

For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.

If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the LORD to put them to death.

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.