48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

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

And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, 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.

I have become a stranger to My brothers, and a foreigner to My mother's children.

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

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no sin; he shall be a companion to a destroyer.

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

And any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.

and I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not set your soul on making him die.

The rod and rebuke give wisdom, but a boy sent off causes shame to his mother.

Jesus answered, Neither has this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be revealed 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. Yea, they have called a multitude after you. Do not believe them, though they speak good things to you.

And call no one your father on the earth, for One is your Father in Heaven.

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 eagles shall eat it.

For what is it in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.

For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and mother"; and, "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die by death."

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

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.

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

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

But he who does wrong shall receive justice for the wrong which he did, and there is no respect of persons.

But I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father in Heaven.

Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, came tending the flock with his brothers. And he was a youth with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.

The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

It is in the power of my hand to do you harm. But the God of your fathers spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed that you do not speak either good or bad to Jacob.

A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a scorner does not hear rebuke.

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 sons of men.

In those days they shall not say any more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.

As for my people, children are their taskmasters, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your rulers cause you to go astray and destroy the way of your paths.

Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you 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 that you loathe shall be forsaken before both its kings.

If one man sins against another, the judge shall judge him. But if a man sins against Jehovah, who shall plead for him? But they did not listen to the voice of their father, because Jehovah desired to kill them.

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

so that you may become sons of your Father 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.

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

And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers who sinned against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and He made them for a horror, as you see.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother's house in the day of your trouble; better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Do not sharply rebuke an elder, but exhort as a father, and the younger ones as brothers,

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. And they will cause some of you to be put to death.

Even a child is known by his own doings, whether his work is pure and whether it is right.