48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.

And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

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 am become a stranger unto my brethren, even an alien unto my mother's children.

And he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die for it.

Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

Who so robbeth his father and mother, and sayeth it is no sin; the same is like unto a murderer.

If thou teachest a child in his youth what way he should go; he shall not leave it when he is old.

"'Whosoever curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on his head, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be unto me sons and daughters," saith the Lord almighty.

Chasten thy son while there is hope; but let not thy soul be moved to slay him.

The rod and correction minister wisdom; but if a child be not looked unto, he bringeth his mother to shame.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man hath sinned, nor yet his father and mother: but that the works of God should be showed on him.

A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.

For thy brethren and thy kindred have altogether despised thee, and cried out upon thee in thine absence. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to thee.

And call ye no man your father upon the earth, for there is but one, your father, and he is in heaven.

Whoso laugheth his father to scorn, and setteth his mother's commandment at naught; the ravens pick out his eyes in the valley, and devoured be he of the young Eagles.

For what is it wherein ye were inferiors unto other congregations? Except it be therein that I was not grievous unto you. Forgive me this wrong done unto you.

And hereby are the sons of God known, and also the sons of the devil. All that work not righteousness, are not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.

For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.

Foolishness sticketh in the heart of the lad; but the rod of correction driveth it away.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

But he that doth wrong shall receive for the wrong that he hath done: for there is no respect of persons.

Moreover, I said unto their sons in the wilderness, 'Walk not in the statutes of your forefathers; keep not their ordinances, and defile not yourselves with their idols,

See that ye despise not one of these little ones. For I say unto you, that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my father, which is in heaven.

'The LORD is long yer he be angry, and full of mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man innocent, and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third and fourth generation.'

And these are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brethren, and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and of Zilpah his father's wives. And he brought unto their father an evil saying that was of them.

The soul that sinneth, she shall die. The son shall not bear part of the father's wickedness. The righteousness of the right shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

for I am able to do you evil. But the God of your father spake unto me yesterday, saying, 'take heed that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good.'

A wise son will receive his father's warning; but he that is scornful, will not hear when he is reproved.

I will be his father and he shall be my son; insomuch that if he sin, I will but rebuke him with such a rod as men be rebuked with and with such plagues as the children of men be plagued with.

Then shall it no more be said, 'The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Children are extortioners of my people, and women have rule of them. O my people, thy leaders deceive thee, and tread out the way of thy footsteps.

Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die thereof.

For before the child come to knowledge, to eschew the evil and chose the good, the land that thou so abhorest shall be desolate of both her kings.

If one man sin against another, the judge can redress it. But if a man sin against the LORD, who can redress it?" Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, for the LORD's will was to slay them.

and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.

that ye may be the children of your father that is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on the just and unjust.

Our fathers, which now are gone, have sinned; and we must bear their wickedness.

And be ye not like your fathers and your brethren which trespassed against the LORD of your fathers, which therefore gave them up that they are wasted, as ye see.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, see thou forsake not; but go not into thy brother's house in time of thy trouble. Better is a friend at hand than a brother far off.

Rebuke not an elder: but exhort him as a father, and the younger men as brethren,

If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not?

Yea, and ye shall be betrayed of your fathers and mothers, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and lovers. And some of you shall they put to death.

A child is known by his conversation, whether his works be pure and right.