48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not 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 and a foreigner to my mother's sons,

And {whoever strikes} his father or his mother will surely be put to death.

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

He who robs his father and his mother and says, "There is no crime," is partner to a man who corrupts.

Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

" 'If [there is] {anyone} who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother--his blood [is] upon him.

and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me," says the all-powerful Lord.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire.

As for a rod and reproof, they will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced [by] his mother.

Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly} after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.

And do not call [anyone] your father on earth, for one is your heavenly Father.

The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.

{For in what respect are you made worse off} more than the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.

For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'

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

Each [of you] must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I [am] Yahweh your God.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.

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

For the one who does wrong will receive back whatever wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

"And I said to their children in the desert, 'You must not go in the statutes of your parents; you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols.

"See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven constantly see the face of my Father [who is] in heaven.

'Yahweh [is] {slow to anger} and great of loyal love, {forgiving} sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.'

These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. Now he [was] a helper with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.

The person, the [one] sinning, will die. A son shall not bear the guilt of the father, and a father shall not bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him; the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

{It is in my power} to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, '{Take care} from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.'

A wise child [hears] the discipline of a father, but a scoffer does not listen to a rebuke.

I will be a father to him, and he will be a son for me, whom I will punish when he does wrong, with a rod of men and with blows of the {human beings}.

"In those days they will say no longer, '{Parents} have eaten unripe fruit, and [the] teeth of [the] children {are set on edge}.'

My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading [you], and they confuse the course of your paths.

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

For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, {the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.}

If a man sins against a man, then God can intercede for him. But if a man sins against Yahweh, who can intercede for him?" But they did not {obey} their father, because Yahweh wanted to kill them.

maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.

in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.

Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who acted unfaithfully before Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them as a desolation, as you see.

As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to [him] as a father, younger men as brothers,

Endure [it] for discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son [is there] whom a father does not discipline?

And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death [some] of you.

Even by his acts, a {young man} will make himself known, whether his acts are pure and upright.