48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong
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A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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.
Whosoever robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.
Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.
For even your brethren, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yea, they have called a multitude after you: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto you.
The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.
For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.
For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Foolishness is bound 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 unto the Lord.
But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons.
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk you not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
Take heed that you 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.
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
The soul that sins, 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 spoke unto me last night, saying, Take heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits 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 a sour grape, 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 who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that you dread shall be forsaken by both her kings.
If one man sins against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sins against the LORD, who shall intercede for him? Nevertheless they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to slay them.
Having your conduct honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
And be not like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.
Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
Even a child is known by his acts, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
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